Majority Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.

  

  Regina King
  • Love
  • Rap
  • Crime

• The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Joke
  • First Place
  • Dragged

• Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Decision
  • Vote
  • Majority

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

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Majority
  • Seclusion

• 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

• 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

• 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

• In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Evil
  • Reason
  • Imagine

• If the majority of people said I did something wrong, then I must be wrong, and I will think 'I didn't even mean it like that, why are you treating me like this?' But if a lot of people say that I'm wrong and it's not good, then it must be not good. I will say, 'Okay' and then tell myself that this cannot happen again. I have to grasp it and change it for the better.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• 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 little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Opinion
  • Littles
  • Reputation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.

  

  Bill Lipschutz
  • Different
  • Majority
  • Trader

• 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

• Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.

  

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald
  • Same
  • Side
  • Fools

• Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

  

  William James
  • Long
  • Majority
  • Catchy

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