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"The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just."
"Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right."
"If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash."
"It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome."
"A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left."
"I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting."
"Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority."
"The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion."
"We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it."
"In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things."
"If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?"
"To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him."
"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."
"As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right."
"The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful."
"Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!"
"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."
"Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur."
"Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting observations.....Nevertheless, the history of science shows that new observations and theories can eventually prevail."
"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority."
