Quotes by Majority A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily. Alain de Botton majority would-be art The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters. Alan Bennett majority sunday people The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns. Alan Dershowitz majority gun people You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you. Alan Light majority labels needs I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. Alan Moore adaptation majority couple Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority. Albert Camus majority democracy law The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it. Albert Camus escaping majority men ... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all. Albion Fellows Bacon majority mother mind A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Aldous Huxley majority people years Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! Aldous Huxley majority bored determination The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. Aldous Huxley majority logic reason Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant. Aldous Huxley tyrants majority practice And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners. Alex Jones majority media cities The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs. Alex Jones majority world If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage. Alexander Kotov majority games trying The laughers are a majority. Alexander Pope majority laughter 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. Alexis de Tocqueville majority united-states political There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law. Alexis de Tocqueville majority law justice The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former Alfred Armand Montapert majority records inspirational 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. Alfred North Whitehead majority truth time «1234567891011»
