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There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)

The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible. (Quote by - Bob Goodlatte)

The major determinant is how much does it take from Jordan as opposed to other markets which historically weren't so close to it. (Quote by - Angus Blair)

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)

But that was the most restricted launch supply of any major console platform. (Quote by - Anita Frazier)

Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent. (Quote by - Adnan Pachachi)

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

The evidence shows that it has been very difficult for the majority of firms to add value to the tune of the fees that are being charged Customers are becoming wise to this. (Quote by - Bill Maldonado)

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fool (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

We will still pick up the state and a large majority of local governments. It would be my opinion we go ahead and perhaps bring an amendment some years down the road. (Quote by - Bob Beers)

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Quote by - Giordano Bruno)

The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)

This is the first election in New York City history where the majority is minority. (Quote by - Hank Sheinkopf)

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)

One gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

The majority are still guys in their 50s, but we are seeing young miners coming in here now. You didn't see that a year or two ago. (Quote by - Angie McDaniel)

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. (Quote by - George Norman Douglas)

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as ''right'' in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as ''brute force.'' (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

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