Majority Quotes
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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 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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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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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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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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The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
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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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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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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 biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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The majority is wicked.
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The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
