Quotes with majority

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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • W. H. Auden There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Martha Gellhorn Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • George Orwell Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Jefferson We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Barney Frank 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.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Henry Miller What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead 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 N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Walter Lippmann What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Eugene V. Debs When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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  • Charles Swindoll When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Carol Roth When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • Mark Twain When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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