Majority Quotes
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
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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.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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.
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I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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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.
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I have a very small group of friends that I've had - the three of them - for the majority of my life.
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A majority can do anything.
