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"Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?"
"Was there ever a time when the majority was right?"
"Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view."
"God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind."
"On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom."
"Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote."
"Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party"
"I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast."
"Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things."
"The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never."
"... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes."
"To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time."
"To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens."
"And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority."
"There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion."
"Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are."
"The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies."
"As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority."
"Take Cuba. A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it too. But the government won't allow it."
"In fact, for the majority of the population, wages and incomes have stagnated and conditions have gotten worse. So they are asking, "what did I do wrong?" And the answer that the talk show host is giving them is convincing, in it's internal logic. It's saying, "what's wrong is the rich liberals own everything, run everything, they don't care about you; therefore, distrust them" and so on."
