Quotes by category:Majority

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

majority law people

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

majority important thinking

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.

majority attitude thinking

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems... by Victor Davis Hanson

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Victor Davis Hanson

majority reflection culture

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has atta... by Victor Hugo

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

majority clothes kings

There are people that grandstand and seem to be publicly politically engaged because they like the attention, more than because they're genuinely concerned about the world. But I don't think that's the majority.

Viggo Mortensen

majority people thinking

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake u... by Vincent Van Gogh

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

Vincent Van Gogh

majority wish people

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

Vincent de Paul

majority community leadership

The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to co... by Virginia Foxx

The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.

majority bills party

The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.

majority war long

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.

majority political criticism

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

Vladimir Voinovich

majority people thinking

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

cheerful majority past

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

majority men book

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

well-known equal majority

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Walter Lippmann

hymns majority minorities

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Warren E. Burger

equality majority racism

What the majority calls "blessing" may actually be a judgment fro... by Warren W. Wiersbe

What the majority calls "blessing" may actually be a judgment from God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

majority blessing christian

A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

mentor majority years

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

majority church spiritual