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The White Majority is the Problem -- Mona Sahlin
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. -- Napoleon Hill
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -- Samuel Adams
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back. -- Tucker Carlson
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). -- Ayn Rand
Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world. -- Paul Mooney
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong. -- Amit Kalantri
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. -- Robert Ringer
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born. -- John Jay Hooker
Majority of women like to fantasize and men like to romanticize. I saw a painful mountain in her eyes. -- Santosh Kalwar
One and God make a majority. -- Frederick Douglass
In economics, the majority is always wrong. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
One man with courage is a majority. -- Thomas Jefferson
As for our majority... one is enough. -- Benjamin Disraeli
One man with courage makes a majority. -- Andrew Jackson
A man with God is always in the majority. -- John Knox
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. -- Friedrich Schiller
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. -- Henrik Ibsen
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. -- Jefferson Davis
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. -- Friedrich Schiller
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. -- James Madison
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. -- Robert Bork
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. -- Ayn Rand
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. -- Otto von Bismarck
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law. -- Han Fei
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -- G. H. Hardy
I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that. -- Adele
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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 A. Montapert
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
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them. -- Carter G. Woodson
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. -- Larry Flynt
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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. -- Thomas Jefferson
I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things. -- Kurt Sutter
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. -- P. T. Barnum
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. -- Helen Keller
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. -- Giordano Bruno
I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy. -- Bernie Sanders
In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources. -- Victor Ponta
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives. -- William Wilberforce
We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease. -- S. Jay Olshansky
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards. -- Edward Snowden
We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being healthy and happy with yourself. I'm not perfect, and I will indulge in pizza and sweets on occasion. The goal is to make the majority of your decisions good for your body. So listen to your body, and treat it like your temple. -- Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame. -- Kathryn Minshew
The majority is wicked. -- Bias of Priene
The great silent majority. -- Richard M. Nixon
A majority can do anything. -- Joseph Gurney Cannon
The laughers are a majority. -- Alexander Pope
The majority is always sane. -- Larry Niven
Justice, not the majority, should rule. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The minority yields to the majority! -- Deng Xiaoping
Desperate courage makes One a majority. -- Andrew Jackson
The terrible tyranny of the majority. -- Ray Bradbury
...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism. -- Mark Twain
One with God is a majority. -- Billy Graham
I am a majority of one. -- Henry David Thoreau
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
Truth is not determined by majority vote. -- Douglas Gwyn
One must not mistake majority for truth. -- Jean Cocteau
The right of the majority is absolute. -- Benjamin Tucker
He has gone over to the majority. -- Petronius
The majority can never replace the man -- Adolf Hitler
One on God's side is a majority. -- Wendell Phillips
The man with courage is a majority. -- Andrew Young
One man with God is a majority. -- Brother Andrew
One with the law is a majority. -- Calvin Coolidge
The majority of my blood is Asian. -- Tiger Woods
The majority never has right on its side. -- Henrik Ibsen
The majority of life on Earth is microbial -- Caleb Scharf
Truth is not determined by a majority vote. -- Pope Benedict XVI
One is a majority if he is right. -- Abraham Lincoln
Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties. -- David Brooks
The majority of my work is about preparation. -- Taryn Simon
Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote. -- Gary North
No minority should climb all over the majority. -- Lech Walesa
Truth is not arrived at by majority vote. -- Peter Atkins
... thou shall not steal, even by majority vote ... -- Gary North
The majority is never right, unless it includes me. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules. -- Evan Esar
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines. -- Stefan Molyneux
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. -- Brian Moore
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A majority is always better than the best repartee. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. -- George Bernard Shaw
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. -- Jesse Jackson
The majority of people do not accept my choices. -- Nadya Suleman
When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum. -- Mark Twain
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. -- Julian Barnes
The majority of women in America look like me. -- Brooke Elliott
The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. -- Peter Jackson
By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority. -- Richard Benjamin
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question. -- Constance Baker Motley
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth. -- John Coltrane
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority. -- Henry David Thoreau
The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. -- Louis O. Kelso
The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority. -- Philip K. Dick
An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols. -- Sigmund Freud
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I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace. -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. -- John Paul Stevens
The American dream is dead for the majority of America. -- Suze Orman
A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible. -- Tom Hayden
The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians. -- Thelonious Monk
A single man is minority, a leader is the majority. -- Amit Kalantri
Was there ever a time when the majority was right? -- Robert A. Heinlein
The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work. -- S. Jay Olshansky
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble. -- Sam Rayburn
The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected. -- Paul K. Chappell
The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. -- Hermann Graf Keyserling

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