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Letter "M" » majorities
«Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.»
«The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.»
«The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong»
«The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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Keywords:
creating,
fail,
lack,
majorities,
majority,
meet,
meeting place,
new,
New Man,
persistence,
place,
plans,
taking place
«There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
action,
adequate,
adequate to,
arrant,
creed,
governmental,
made,
majorities,
majority,
no-nonsense,
nonsense,
There is no,
vast,
Vaster,
vastest
«Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).»
Author: Ayn Rand
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Novelist,
Writer)
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About:
Right,
Voting
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Keywords:
individual rights,
majorities,
minorities,
minority,
oppression,
precisely,
protect,
right to vote,
smallest,
subject to,
the smallest,
vote
«The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(
Mathematician,
Philosopher,
Physicist)
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Keywords:
accused,
accuses,
accusing,
approved,
approving,
as well,
either,
established,
fang,
fangs,
fixes,
fixing,
fix it,
fix up,
folly,
gets,
highest,
high and low,
lowest,
majorities,
majority,
order,
Order of,
The Accused,
thoroughly
«The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
England,
English,
English people,
enormous,
majorities,
majority,
people of England,
snobs,
the English
«A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority»
«Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.»