Majority Quotes
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The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
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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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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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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.
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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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The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
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We haven't learned to be the majority party. We haven't learned how to lead. We're still stuck in the opposition.
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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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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.
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I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.
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I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?
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No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
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I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.
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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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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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The majority is wicked.
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... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!
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The single biggest reason why the vast majority of people go nowhere in life is because they don't or won't take risks. They take the easy way out, the path of least resistance. You don't make it big that way. Ever.
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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
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No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority of Christians are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.
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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.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves
