Majority Quotes
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The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
Evangelos Venizelos -
Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
Michelle Rodriguez
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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 -
I believe that the only alternative Israel has to save itself as a Jewish state - and let's be frank about that: the Jewish state is predicated on having a Jewish majority - the only way we can do that is by unilaterally withdrawing our border and withdrawing our settlements in the West Bank.
Michael Oren -
Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
Amy Richards -
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
Tim Ferriss -
We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
You don't just go with a majority because it's the majority. You go with it because it's right. If it feels right, do it. As long as it's legal.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
Herbert Spencer -
Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
Henrik Ibsen -
I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans
David Moyes -
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 -
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
Norman Douglas -
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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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 -
To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.
Barack Obama -
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 -
A majority can do anything.
Joseph Cannon -
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
Gerald Scarfe -
The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.
David L. Bazelon
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The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern where women are truly still taking on their husbands' identities.
Rebecca Traister -
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik Ibsen -
The majority is wicked.
Bias of Priene -
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