Majority Quotes

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. (Friedrich Schiller)
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. View quote
Mark Twain
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure. View quote
George Carlin
Desperate courage makes One a majority. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. View quote
Gore Vidal
Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. View quote
Luis Buñuel
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick? View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority. (Livy)
I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. View quote
A. A. Milne
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. View quote
John C. Calhoun
Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper. View quote
Larry Flynt
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson