#majority

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#majority #may #minority #right #wrong

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much. ↗

— David Bowie

#anyway #been #brother #dare #family

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#democracy #democratic #democratic process #exercising #majority

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#america #believe #care #circumstances #existing

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#build #care #leader #lots #majority

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#day #majority #minority #never #one day

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#citizens #cruel #democracy #exercising #majority

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#majority #must #return #senate

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#also #civilians #constitute #desert #except