Quotes by Majority When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn. Gerd de Ley majority inspirational funny An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history. Gerald R. Ford majority moments house The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next. Gertrude Atherton majority minorities generations Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. George Will majority democracy law The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims. Gijs de Vries violent majority world Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right. Gilbert K. Chesterton progress majority democracy Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. Giordano Bruno majority truth people The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not. Glenn Beck majority doe america Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. George Orwell majority doe book I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not. Gloria Allred majority wind thinking I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. Glynis Johns british majority play The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not. Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra majority principles thinking The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail. George Washington majority principles fundamentals The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies. George R. R. Martin majority two book There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness. Gloria Steinem gaps public-opinion majority There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. George Orwell literary-merit majority survival Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles. George Orwell ukraine majority people The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. George Bernard Shaw majority lying people ... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes. George Eliot argument majority jokes As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. Gore Vidal majority problem class «1112131415161718192021»
