Quotes by Majority 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. Henrik Ibsen yes-you-can majority answers A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority. Henry David Thoreau catchy majority minorities The majority never has right on its side. Henrik Ibsen majority sides I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority Henrik Ibsen majority mass subjects Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are few problems that cannot be solved according to what is just and right without resort to popular opinion. Henry Latham Doherty majority opinion justice The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. Henri Frederic Amiel species majority humanity A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions. Henry A. Kissinger majority minorities groups The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play. Henry Tamburin gambling majority player Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised. Herbert Croly majority literature believe It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things. Haruki Murakami size majority thinking The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. Hermann Graf Keyserling majority unhappy men Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions. Henry A. Kissinger realism majority decision The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men. Friedrich Nietzsche majority rights men I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings. Hiram Maxim majority humanity science We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people. Hillary Clinton majority minorities people The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. Herbert Spencer majority facts past The majority of companies on this planet are publicly driven engines. They're always the last ones to change. They're not only the biggest polluters, but they're the biggest providers of services for the consumer. Government itself is one of the biggest polluters on the planet. The U.S. military pollutes the planet more than most other entities. Horst Rechelbacher majority government military He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. Horace majority mad insanity The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. Howard Fineman majority noble ideas We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. Horace Mann majority vote insane «1314151617181920212223»
