Majority Quotes - page 2

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. (Eugene V. Debs)
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. View quote
Giordano Bruno
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. View quote
George Steiner
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. View quote
Stendhal
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. View quote
Edward Young
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. View quote
Barney Frank
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. View quote
David Deutsch
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions that was the error of 1848 and 1849 but by iron and blood. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. View quote
John Coleman
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. (Ralph W. Sockman)
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. View quote
Flann O'Brien
Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane. View quote
Germaine Greer
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. View quote
Montesquieu
The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. View quote
Michael Moore
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
In economics, the majority is always wrong. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations. (Ragnar Frisch)
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in the minds of men. View quote
Samuel Adams
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists. View quote
Bernie Sanders