Majority Quotes

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

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

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

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

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

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

The minority yields to the majority!

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

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.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

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

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.

It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

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

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.

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.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the 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.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

A man with God is always in the majority.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.

The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from 'Glee,' from something of a different tone.

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

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

I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

One on God's side is a majority.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

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

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.