Quotes by Majority Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis. James Taylor majoritycreatingdoe The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; . . . the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression. James Madison oppressionmajorityparty Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited. James Surowiecki iramajoritypolitical If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. James Madison majoritypatrioticliberty Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens. James Madison majoritypartyrights The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority. Janet Yellen majoritygainspast We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language. Jared Diamond majoritymusicalwar It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. Jason Gann majoritymindpeople Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day. Jasper Fforde majoritylessonsone-day The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love. Jean de la Bruyere womenmajorityheart Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed. Jean Jaures majorityminoritiesintelligent If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority? Jean-Jacques Rousseau majoritygroupspeople It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities. Jean-Jacques Rousseau majoritylawpeople One must not mistake majority for truth. Jean Cocteau majoritymistake When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority. Jean-Pierre Jeunet generositymajorityspeak A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'. Jean Vanier majoritytransitioncommunity I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist. Jeff Dunham majoritytryinglaughing Republicans lost control of Congress because they strayed from the core conservative values that put them into the majority in 1994. If they return to the basic values that a majority of Americans share, they will regain power. If not, they won't. Jeff Gannon majorityconservativereturn Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. Henry David Thoreau neighbormajoritymen President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture. Jennifer Daskal interrogation-techniquesmajoritypresident«1617181920212223242526»
