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Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
— Bill Bryson
Majorities, of course, start with minorities.
— Robert Moses
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.
— Bryant McGill
History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.
— George Bernard Shaw
...truth is bigger than thoughts. It is unchangeable, whereas opinion and knowledge have many angles and variations.
— K.A. Gunn
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
— James K. Polk
There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.
— Jack Balkin
Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
— Abdallah II Of Jordan
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
— John Adams
Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
— Thomas E. Mann
Be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos.
— Abdul Mueed
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
— Robert Bork
The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from ... political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.
— Robert H. Jackson
Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.
— Max Carver
The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.
— Arthur Balfour
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
— G.K. Chesterton
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
— Lysander Spooner
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
— William E. Gladstone
Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.
— Matthew Scully
You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important.
— Donald Trump
Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.
— Hillary Clinton
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
— Thomas Jefferson
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
— Aldous Huxley
Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
— George Saintsbury
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
— Geoff Mulgan
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing...
One loud noise, and it's gone. — Alan Moore
One loud noise, and it's gone. — Alan Moore