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A man with God is always in the majority. — John Knox

When you approach every job enthusiastically in a spirit of friendly cooperation, you distinguish yourself from the vast majority of people. — Napoleon Hill

If you live in a country where the majority is blind, you'll find it difficult to find the way — Thabiso Monkoe

If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important. — Masamune Shirow

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things. — Napoleon Bonaparte

That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority. — Christopher Hitchens

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war. — Desiderius Erasmus

We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority — Irene Fernandez

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. — Trey Anastasio

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. — H.L. Mencken

When Scalia dissents, he pours gasoline on the majority, lights a match, and stomps on the ashes. — Irin Carmon

The majority of the cost of a software project is in long-term maintenance. — Robert C. Martin

One man with courage makes a majority. — Andrew Jackson

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

Majority of folks out there are trying to make a difference. Don't just make a difference; become the difference! — Ogwo David Emenike

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln

"Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion." — George W. Bush

For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment. — Elisabeth Badinter

If anyone's delusional about how love works, what real love feels like, it's the majority of the adult population. — J.A. Redmerski

I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby. — Abbey Clancy

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) — Cornel West

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. — William Osler

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. — Henrik Ibsen

I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed — H.W. Brands

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy. — Norman Granz

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. — Samuel Adams

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. — James Whistler

You don't just go with a majority because it's the majority. You go with it because it's right. If it feels right, do it. As long as it's legal. — Joe Elliott

We want ... as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996. — Pat Robertson

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. — Edward Abbey

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. — Ferdinand Mount

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

The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists. — Z'EV

The problem with mad people is not that they are mad, but that they are suffering from a particular brand of madness that the majority are not. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

when you are a small minority and you own the majority's wealth, security is naturally a primary consideration. — Kim Stanley Robinson

It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides. — E.M.Foster

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end. — Philip Schaff

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers. — Joyce Banda

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

There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate. — Marco Rubio

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs. — Christiane Collange

To change a political system, the majority of the thinking citizens must unite, speak with one voice and stand firm like one leg. — Ahmed Padia Binkatabana

Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. — Glynis Johns

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God. — William G. Boykin

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

It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid. — Drew Nellins Smith

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. — Sidney Blumenthal

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. — Gloria Steinem

A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will. — Duop Chak Wuol

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. — Robert Breault

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country. — John C. Calhoun

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. — James Madison

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

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. — Dorothy Denning

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. — Newt Gingrich

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? — Robert A. Heinlein

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. — James F. Cooper

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country. — William Rainey Harper

The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience. — Reggie Workman

In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one. — Thomas Jefferson

That one with God is a majority. — Florence Scovel Shinn

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? — Henry David Thoreau

Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The laughers are a majority. — Alexander Pope

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. — John Lyman Chatfield

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority. — Amy Richards

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. — Jesse Jackson

Public opinion doesn't exist. More precisely, it exists sometimes, concerning matters about which there's a clear majority view. — Jordan Ellenberg

I hate that the actions of a minority can influence the opinions of a majority. — Sarah Ayoub

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

If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States. — Hamid Karzai

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve. — Pete Sampras

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media. — Amy Goodman

The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight. — Elfriede Jelinek

Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back. — Mikhail Gorbachev

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority — Mahatma Gandhi

The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage. — Aaron Rodgers

I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote — Stephen Colbert

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart. — Mark Hart

I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear - which the majority of us do. — Theodore Dreiser

I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more. — Dan Webster

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority. — Rick Warren

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman

The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play. — Henry Tamburin

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

And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me. — John Osborne

The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term. — Elon Musk

One man with courage is a majority. ~Andrew Jackson — Bob Ravener

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule. — Peter Mansfield

The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost. — Paul Washer

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before. — Nicolas Chamfort

The truth, to the overwhelming majority of mankind, is indistinguishable from a headache. — Isaac Hooke

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube. — Troye Sivan