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majority
«Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.»
Author: Atticus
| About:
Living
| Keywords:
abide, abided, abide by, Abide With Me, conscience, folks, live with, majority, majority rule
«God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
damn, God damn, human race, large, made-up, majority, race
«In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracy, majority, supreme, Supreme Power, the poor
«A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
faith, majorities, majority, majority rule, manufactured, manufactures, Manufacturing, rule, rule of
«For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Future,
Past
| Keywords:
experiment, majority, regret
«Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| Keywords:
easiest, logical, majority, overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, quit, temporary
«For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Appearance,
Influence,
Mankind,
Reality
| Keywords:
appearance, influenced, majority, mankind, realities, satisfied
«All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Civil rights,
Democracy,
Freedom
| Keywords:
all too, bear in mind, cases, Equal rights, majority, minority, prevail, principle, protect, reasonable, rightful, sacred
«Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Civilization,
Doing Your Best,
Mankind,
Peace
| Keywords:
atavistic, barbaric, civilization, constabulary, defend, forces, freedom of the will, kept, large, majority, mankind, Peace and Freedom, possessed, survive, unite