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Quotes about Majority

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
- Edmund Burke
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
- Mark Twain
Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.
- Michael Jordan
We live in an age in which the overwhelming majority of people appear to be comfortable with their myopia.
- Os Guinness
A striking symptom of the church's problems in the West today is the fact that in a country such as the United States, Christians are still the overwhelming majority of citizens, but the American way of life has moved far from the way of life of Jesus—which means simply that the Christians who are the majority are living a way of life closer to the world than to the way of Jesus. In a word, they are worldly and therefore incapable of shaping their culture.
- Os Guinness
O Lord, save us from the murmuring spirit which with the majority of us is merely skin deep, but it is harmful, hurting the bloom of spiritual communion. Keep our life hid with Christ in God.
- Oswald Chambers
Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, if somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.
- Acts 27:12
The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.
- 2 Corinthians 2:6
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin
Desperate courage makes One a majority.
- Andrew Jackson
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.
- William Wilberforce