Quotes
Quotes about Majority
The cup goes round:
And who so artful as to put it by!
'T is long since Death had the majority.
One on God's side is a majority.
The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
I believe that the majority of composers are too preoccupied with the building of structures to concern themselves with 'emotion'
The majority of failures in life are simply the victims of their mental defeats.
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
As for what the Church thinks and says, what influence does that have on the handling of American politics, the conduct of American education, the regulation of marriage and divorce, on sex and drink, on how industrial disputes are settled, on how we carry on business? As a plain matter of fact, religion in this country is generally regarded as a tolerated pastime for such people as happen to like to indulge in occasional godly exercisesâas a strictly private matter in an increasingly close-knit and socially acting societyâin other words, as something that does not count. I should like to see the Church recognize that it has been pushed into the realm of the non-essentials, and to persuade it to fight like fury for the right and the duty to bring every act of America and Americans before the bar of God's judgment. [Christian leaders] are making valiant claim to such a right and duty; but the great mass of Church members are content to regard the Church as a conglomerate of private culture clubs, nice for christenings, weddings and funerals. Most Church members readily agree with the unchurched majority that it is not the proper business of the Church to criticize America or Americans.
In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, often pretended to chide Christians for having invented the term "secularist," a term which, they said, was devoid of meaning. Their leaders knew very well, however, that secularism, like any other parasite, derives its sustenance from the object on which it feeds, and so they were rather pleased when milquetoast Christians timidly offered, as a definition of secularism, "living as though God did not exist." What Christians should have called it was, rather, "a contemptibly fraudulent way of living on the cheap, by reaping the maximum fruits of Christian effort, while contributing the minimum effort of your own." When secularists accused Christians of "living in the past," the Christians ought to have retaliated by pointing out that secularists were "living off the past." By the time they got around to doing so, however, the majority of secularists had become morally incapable of seeing the point.
One with God is a majority.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
One man with courage makes a majority.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
One man with courage makes a majority.
One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson.
This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
They say "practice" makes perfect " Of course, it doesn't. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.
