Majority Quotes

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

It’s a new day. We’re no longer the silent majority.

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.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Why go with the majority when you can find your own direction?

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here,

We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.