Quotes of Majority - somelinesforyou

“ The vast majority of homeowners have a sizable equity cushion with which to absorb a potential decline in house prices. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ 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

“ The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ”

- Ralph W. Sockman

“ A majority is always better than the best repartee. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ In economics the majority is always wrong. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ One and God make a majority. ”

- Frederick Douglass

“ One on God's side is a majority. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ”

- George Steiner

“ The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. ”

- Mark Twain

“ In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ One with the law is a majority. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. ”

- Eugene V. Debs

“ No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. ”

- Norman Douglas

“ It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. ”

- Barry Gibb

“ When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'. ”

- Sam Rayburn

“ One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. ”

- James Fenimore Cooper

“ Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all, tet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, giveing us manhood or womanhood fiber. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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