Majority Quotes

• I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.

  

  George Michael
  • America
  • England
  • Concerts

• We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Authority
  • Majority
  • Dominates

• The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • People
  • Survival
  • Conditions

• Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Leaders
  • Majority
  • Own Minds

• Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift through it. The overwhelming majority of those opinions are going to be ignored, because if every opinion is being offered, really no opinion is being offered.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Opinion
  • Period
  • Majority

• There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.

  

  Dennis Altman
  • Reason
  • Concept
  • Minority

• Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Beginning
  • Battle
  • Losing

• What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

  

  Michael K. Powell
  • Know
  • Scared
  • Debate

• And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Live
  • Content

• The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

  

  Michael D. Barnes
  • Everything
  • Television
  • Americans

• I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Word

• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Majority
  • Seclusion

• It does not help the vast majority of Americans, but it does really well for people already at the top. Well, we're going to turn that upside down. We're going to make the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes for a change.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Americans
  • Top

• It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Control
  • Grief
  • Self-Control

• The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

  

  William Osler
  • Sleep
  • Forget
  • Birth

• When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • History
  • Changes
  • Majority

• It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Law
  • Court
  • Frustrated

• One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.

  

  Wendy Kaminer
  • Rights
  • Majority
  • Libertarianism

• Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

  

  William A. Rusher
  • Moments
  • Fighting
  • Moral

• The majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Majority
  • Readers
  • Quotations

• By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

  

  Moshe Sharett
  • Hands
  • Immigration
  • Periods

• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  

  Richard Masur
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Obligation

• So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Property

• The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Eye
  • Mad
  • Painter

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