Majority Quotes
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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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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How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.
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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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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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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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We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the 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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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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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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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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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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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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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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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 majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
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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 fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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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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How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
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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.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
