Quotes about Majority

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Even though the majority of Chileans, especially the entire middle class, supported him. Parliament (again the parliament!) made it difficult for him to govern; it forced him to resign his position and exiled him to Europe.

One man with courage makes a majority.

One with the law is a majority.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.