Majority Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.
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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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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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... 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 majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
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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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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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The majority is wicked.
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No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a 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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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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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 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.
