Majority Quotes
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority."
"I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way."
"An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or ethnic justice."
Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience
"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
"Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do."
"Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority."
"The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today."
"You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from the majority of whistle-blower's are not being upheld, that you are living in a seriously dysfunctional society."
"Most people spend less time outside than prisoners."
"One person should never decide what happens to the majority."
"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."
"If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood."
"Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them."
"Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"History honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Though the stupid have great capacity to direct the world because they are plentiful, the clever has a much greater capacity to prevent the stupid from halting the progression of humanity because - though they are rare - they are tactical and intelligent!"
"If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time."
"Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness."
"The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea."
"A single man is minority, a leader is the majority."
"I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over."
"As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country."
"The majority of boys think the highest form of creativity is weeing a pattern into snow."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
"Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed."
"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"
"One major factor that makes most achievers to fail is their ability to know where they are going and becoming unaware of what they will have to do when they get there!"
"Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give up! Insist, Resist and Persist to the end!"
"True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the minority!"
"Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away. Eventually, the success goes away because that is the command "excuses" gave out; "pack and go"!"
"What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!"
Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
"For a large majority of youth raised in church, the church has become irrelevant to their goals and pursuits in life"
"The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them."
"Then I told him, ‘Injustice, Poverty and Discrimination is faced by a lot of Indians, and also majority, the fact is that if you “Minority” stop thinking yourself as a part of “Minority” and start thinking as the part of India, and proceed together for it’s good, then only “Minority” and majority would progress altogether."
"Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question."
"How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education."
"Not always majority are correct sometimes it goes with a lack of understanding"
"If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?"
"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice"
"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
"In each generation, there is this certain wisdom of the ages that gets reburied in the fleeting drivels of modernity; then, like a diamond in the rough, it is yet again unearthed by a very small minority who not only restores it, but also polishes it and presents it as something new, something highly valuable and refreshing as understood by the current."
"The truth does not need a number of supporters for authenticity. One person among the lot can be the only truthful out of the ten; 11 people out of 12 may be on the truthful side. However, the truth is the truth irrespective of how many people like to embrace it!"
"A minority may be right a majority is always wrong."
"It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail."
"One on God's side is a majority."
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