Majority Quotes
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To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
Whitney Tilson
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I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.
Richard Adams
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
Henrik Ibsen
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Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
Amy Richards
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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
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
George Bernard Shaw
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The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.
John Stuart Mill
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
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Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.
Rose Schneiderman
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I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans
David Moyes
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We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The majority never has right on its side.
Henrik Ibsen
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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.
William J. Murray
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While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
Anastas Mikoyan
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The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.
Tony Evans
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
Carter G. Woodson
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Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
Steven Biko
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The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
Daniel Negreanu
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Information Cascades: The Tragic Rationality of Bubbles Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Brian Christian
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How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
Raul Grijalva
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A law is a law. It can be voted in. It can be voted out. It can be voted in and stay in as long as you have the majority. And where do you have the majority? You kid yourself.
Harry Hay
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
Victor Hugo
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
George Washington
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A majority can do anything.
Joseph Cannon