Majority Quotes - page 3

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
After all, our laws only reflect the definitions of the majority. When those ideas change, the laws change. View quote
George Alec Effinger
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. View quote
Smedley Butler
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression. View quote
Che Guevara
I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.... View quote
Joe Biden
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side And hain't that a big enough majority in any town. View quote
Mark Twain
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. View quote
Aldous Huxley
As for our majority... one is enough. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A majority is always better than the best repartee. (Benjamin Disraeli)
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. View quote
Edward Abbey
I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women. View quote
Richard Adams
Democracy in the sense of political equality and majority rule is by no means the most desirable, that is, optimal solution for all kinds of associations. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. View quote
Louise Slaughter
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. View quote
Olympia Brown
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. (Sidney Blumenthal)
Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority. View quote
Vic Snyder
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat. View quote
Vic Snyder
At bottom, the court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics. View quote
John Paul Stevens
Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do. View quote
Antonin Scalia