I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.
You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.
Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana. . . We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American. . . It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.
If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!
Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.