Majority Quotes

“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“Fools are in the majority, and they never lack confidence because a fool believes that being in the majority is proof that one is right.”
― James Rozoff

“Being on the side of the majority is often a sign that you are wrong, or the most unlikely to be right.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“History honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions?”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“That the makers of laws are the majority who are weak; and they make laws and distribute praises and censures with a view to themselves and to their own interests.”
― Plato, Gorgias

“I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities. Seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right. Sometimes wrong. But no matter, the crowed follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized are secretly kindhearted, and shrink from inflicting pain. But in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves.”
― Mark Twain

“It appears both amusing and terrifying at the same time,
that the majority of the women claim to be the victims of
narcissistic behaviours. I have no doubt that, this is something to
do with the newly introduced gender equality, I called it ‘new’
because it has been put into practice only in the past decades.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“A democracy can only be produced if a majority movement is built. The guerilla strategy depends on a collapse of will in the ruling class to produce the social crisis out of which revolution occurs, whether the majority favors it or not.”
― Anarchist Communist Collective

“Estos anuncios dolían a Yuichi. Sin poder evitarlo, le obligaban a pensar que la sociedad se basaba en la heterosexualidad, ese principio, enojoso hasta la exasperación, establecido por la mayoría.”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

“The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us-Is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority . . .
The majority has might-unfortunately-but right it is not. Right-are I and a few others. The minority is always right. . .
I have a mind to make a revolution against the lie that the majority is in the possession of truth. What kind of truths are those around which the majority usually gathers? They are truths that have become so old that they are on the way toward becoming shaky. But once a truth has become that old, it is also on the way toward becoming a lie . . . A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen years; at most twenty, rarely more. But such aged truths are always exceedingly thin. Nevertheless it is only at that stage that the majority makes their acquaintance . . . All these majority truths . . . are rather like rancid, spoiled . . . hams. And that is the source of the moral scurvy that rages all around us... (Qtd. by Walter Kaufmann)”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“, I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities. Seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right. Sometimes wrong. But no matter, the crowed follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized are secretly kindhearted, and shrink from inflicting pain. But in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves.”
― Mark Twain

“Without doubt, the mystics have accessed the cosmic consciousness and they are capable to use their intuitive abilities, unlike the majority of the people. This is the highest knowledge one can ever seek to possess in our age.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“.. the homemade wisdom of the parliamentary nursery: in order to carry anything, you must first have a majority. The same, they say, applies to revolution: first let's become a "majority." The true dialectic of revolutions, however, stands this wisdom of parliamentary moles on its head: not through a majority to revolutionary tactics, but through revolutionary tactics to a majority - that is the way the road runs.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

“I regard as impious and detestable the maxim that in matters of government the majority of a people has the right to do everything, and nevertheless I place the origin of all powers in the wishes of the majority. Am I in contradiction with myself?

There exists a general law which has been made, or at least adopted not only by the majority of this or that people but by the majority of all men. This law is justice.

Justice thus forms the limit to the right of each people.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The documentary hypothesis once held (and maybe still holds) the agreement of the majority of scholars. But that is not what made it right. We do not determine truth by a majority vote. The hypothesis held us because its evidence was (and is) strong. None of the new alternatives has replaced it, not only because they have not won over a majority of the field, but because they remain insufficiently defended and because they have not dealt with the evidence that made the documentary hypothesis the standard for a century.
(footnote)”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus

“Should all the hoards of mankind assemble as one and bring the full force of their numbers against us, we must remember that one man standing alone with God remains an immovable majority.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Blacks do not see the arrival of Hispanics as an opportunity to celebrate diversity. By 1999, there were 26 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District in which Hispanics were a majority of the students but blacks were a majority of the staff. Hispanic parents demanded more Hispanic staff but blacks would not step down. As Celes King III, president of the Congress for Racial Equality, who once led a demonstration against a white principal at Manual Arts High School, noted, with no apparent sense of irony: 'The situation has gone full circle. The Hispanics are using the same thoughts and practices we used 30 years ago. . . . We need to organize and maintain our positions in education because we worked so hard for them.”
― Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

“The majority of mental illness is not mass shooters, it is people with forgetfulness, confusion and irritability.”
― Steven Magee

“The majority of prescription medications that the doctors gave me degraded my health instead of improving it.”
― Steven Magee

“It's one of the mistakes most people do… not the minority… but the most.. the majority people is to have books or to buy books never to read them… never to finish them.”
― Deyth Banger

“The vast majority of initial disability applications are denied.”
― Steven Magee

“The majority is the effective and powerful law, in a constructive way, or in a destructive way on this planet.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“There is a clear government agenda to send the majority of the disabled into extreme poverty.”
― Steven Magee

“The Workers Compensation system for occupational diseases is a government con for the vast majority of applicants.”
― Steven Magee

“In the village where I was born, most people were quite simple folk, as were my parents. There were only a few prominent residents: the mayor, the doctor, the notary and some members of the aristocracy who lived in manor houses on the edge of the village. The children of these prominent citizens were different. They didn’t run; they walked upright and bashed their knees in falls a lot less frequently. They had different toys as well. We had spinning tops, balls and elastic. They had a diabolo, walked with books on their heads and later they were given a horse.
Our kind of children played from the age of ten in the brass band; they were given piano lessons at home and on Sundays they would listen to Peter and the Wolf. There were differences: you could see that instantly. But ours was the majority and from belonging to the majority we derived our pride and strength.
Looking back, this strikes me as odd.
At university, all the prominent children of the country had come together and now they formed the majority. They had walked about with books on their heads and they all knew >Peter and the Wolf backwards. Theirs were tales about the decline of the aristocracy – some of these were quite hilarious. It’s the way you tell ‘em.”
― Connie Palmen, De wetten

“The majority of COVID-19 deaths are males.”
― Steven Magee

“The majority of the people are terrified by the idea of having too many enemies. But I can assure you that there is success without criticism. We need them beside us in the same manner as we need our friends!”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo