Majority famous quotes

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#Block #Acting #Majority

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.
-- Abram Hoffer

#Independent #Majority #Patient

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
-- Adam Lambert

#Thinking #Twenties #Majority

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

#Self Esteem #Independent Women #Majority

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
-- Adnan Pachachi

#Apology #Thinking #Majority

The majority can never replace the man
-- Adolf Hitler

#Military #Men #Majority

The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Law #Decision #Majority

By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature...
-- Adolf Hitler

#Numbers #Democracy #Majority

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
-- Ai-jen Poo

#Special #Majority #Population

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#People #Majority #Want

I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
-- Al Franken

#Confused #People #Majority

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
-- Alan Barth

#Criticism #Civil Rights #Majority

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
-- Alan Bennett

#Sunday #People #Majority

A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Home #Years #Majority

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.
-- Alan Light

#Majority #Needs #Labels

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
-- Albert Camus

#Beautiful #Art #Majority

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
-- Albert Camus

#Law #Democracy #Majority

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Escaping #Majority

The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
-- Albert Gallatin

#Rights #People #Majority

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Majority #Logic #Reason

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Years #People #Majority

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
-- Aldous Huxley

#Determination #Bored #Majority

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.
-- Alex Jones

#Majority #World

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.
-- Alex Jones

#Media #Cities #Majority

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.
-- Alexander Fraser Tytler

#Government #Democracy #Majority

If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Games #Trying #Majority

The laughers are a majority.
-- Alexander Pope

#Laughter #Majority

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

#Inspiration #Majority #Records

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

#Majority #Morality #Given

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
-- Alveda King

#Children #Abortion #Majority

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.
-- Alveda King

#Abortion #Majority #Population

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
-- Anastas Mikoyan

#Iron #Discipline #Majority

One man with courage makes a majority.
-- Andrew Jackson

#Business #Men #Majority

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
-- Andrew Rannells

#Gay #Majority #Midwest

The man with courage is a majority.
-- Andrew Young

#Courage #Men #Majority

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?
-- Andy Sawford

#Government #Majority #Benefits

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
-- Ann Landers

#Children #Successful #Majority

It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.
-- Anna Julia Cooper

#Voice #Giving #Majority

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Justice #Judging #Majority

I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Hate #People #Majority

If it's advisable to never share own problems with others as sages say that majority don't care, then it's more sensible to never brag of own achievements as their attitude is likely to remain the same.
-- Anuj

#Attitude #Achievement #Majority

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
-- Aristotle

#Power #Democracy #Majority

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
-- Arthur Balfour

#Kings #Majority #May

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Struggle #Majority #Lasts

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.
-- Ashraf Ghani

#Hurt #Jobs #Majority

I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.
-- Aung San

#Thinking #Ice #Majority

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

#Stupid #Islam #Majority

The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
-- Ayn Rand

#Liberty #Majority #Principles

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
-- Ayn Rand

#Rights #Liberty #Majority

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.
-- Ayn Rand

#Champion #Majority #Slavery

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Kids #White #Majority

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
-- Barack Obama

#Country #Majority #United States

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
-- Barbara Boxer

#Waiting #Majority #Reform

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
-- Barbara Jordan

#Peace #Majority #Today

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
-- Barney Frank

#Gay #Majority #Minorities

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Men #Majority #Deeds

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.
-- Bell Hooks

#Feminism #Majority #Oppression

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
-- Ben Horowitz

#Majority #Example #Problem

The right of the majority is absolute.
-- Benjamin Tucker

#Majority

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.
-- Bernie Taupin

#Song #Majority #Titles

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Believe #Presidential #Majority

The majority is wicked.
-- Bias of Priene

#Wicked #Majority #Wickedness

It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.
-- Bill Lipschutz

#Successful #Majority #Different

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.
-- Bill Shuster

#Leadership #People #Majority

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Thinking #Sick #Majority

One with God is a majority.
-- Billy Graham

#Majority

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Obamacare #Majority #Pages

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Obamacare #People #Majority

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
-- Brad Paisley

#Thinking #Awards #Majority

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
-- Bram Fischer

#Hatred #Majority #Oppression

The majority of women in America look like me.
-- Brooke Elliott

#America #Majority #Looks

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
-- Caitlin Moran

#Shoes #Majority #Magazines

One with the law is a majority.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Law #Majority

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Majority #Politics #Vote

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.
-- Camille Paglia

#Unhappy #Majority #Males

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
-- Carl David Anderson

#Numbers #Track #Majority

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.
-- Carl Rogers

#Self Esteem #People #Majority

How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.
-- Carmelo Anthony

#Majority

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
-- Carter G. Woodson

#College #People #Majority

This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Judging #Majority #Opinion

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
-- Cathy Guisewite

#Majority #Mammograms #Messages

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Want #Majority #Blame

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Country #Taken #Majority

You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.
-- Charles Schumer

#Two #Majority #Want

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.
-- Charlie Munger

#Majority #Faces #Arguing

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.
-- Chick Hearn

#Majority #Please

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.
-- Chris Christie

#House #Suffering #Majority

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
-- Chris Hughes

#Reading #Years #Majority

Justice, not the majority, should rule.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Justice #Majority #Should

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.
-- Christopher Bond

#America #Priorities #Majority

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Kissing #Numbers #Majority

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Power #Majority #Medusa

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.
-- Christopher Isherwood

#Real #Majority #Minorities

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Thinking #Majority #Prejudice

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
-- Claudio Hummes

#Majority #Viruses #Facts

The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.
-- Cody Lundin

#Self #Majority #Population

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.
-- Condoleezza Rice

#Believe #Political #Majority

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
-- Constance Baker Motley

#Race #White #Majority

The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
-- Cris Judd

#People #Dancer #Majority

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-- Criss Jami

#Loneliness #People #Majority