Majority Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.

  

  Z'EV
  • Training
  • Majority
  • Drummer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Majority
  • Readers
  • Quotations

• 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 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

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

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Majority
  • Seclusion

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • History
  • Changes
  • Majority

• Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • King
  • Nation
  • Flatters

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

  

  William James
  • Long
  • Majority
  • Catchy

• People say I am eccentric and frail. Well, I may be frail in body and hearing, but I hope my state of mind is as alert as ever it was and I am going to speak my mind as freely as I have ever done. I am a common man and I speak for the common people of England and from the letters I receive, the great majority agree with me.

  

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
  • Speak
  • Majority
  • Freely

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