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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison
Needs
Political
Liable
More
Wrong
Majority
Opinion
Than
Maxim
Current
In My Opinion
Which
Interest
Standard
Therefore
Right
Right And Wrong
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Alone
Great
Organization
Great Organization
Wrong
Majority
Safer
Than
Any
Far
Right
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy
Work
Art
Saying
Good
Food
People
Men
Say
Kind
Eat
Some
Most
Majority
Very
Same
Incomprehensible
The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.
Mitch McConnell
Vote
Simple
Debate
Party
President
Ensure
Restore
Fair
Majority
Judicial
Traditions
Senate
Any
After
Regardless
Full
Prepared
Floor
Receive
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.
Napoleon Hill
Failure
Persistence
Business
Men
Meet
Those
Take
Fail
New
Majority
Because
Lack
Place
Which
Creating
Plans
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
Robert Anton Wilson
Not Perfect
Our
Ancestors
Perfect
Most
Majority
Gentlemen
Were
Mammals
Ladies
Them
Even
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
Law
Witness
Men
Nation
Unjust
Unlike
Mussolini
Laws
Never
Cruel
Majority
How
Motives
Italy
Germany
Stopped
Being
Ends
Manipulate
The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.
Robert Reich
Work
Democracy
Active
Back
Once
Way
Only
Toward
Economy
Most
Majority
Becoming
Get
Politically
Again
Us
Organized
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
Steven Biko
Evil
Arrogant
Nothing
Petty
Assumption
Both
Majority
Obviously
Foreigners
Clique
Decide
Grand
Apartheid
Justify
Lives
Right
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
God
Side
Majority
The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.
Abbie Hoffman
Change
People
Mind
Situation
Unjust
Tremendous
Out
Willing
Find
Sacrifices
Majority
Make
Always
Go
Were
Sitting
Blows
Grain
Against
Who
Stands
I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
Alan Alda
Morning
Me
Same Thing
Think
Paper
Telling
Would
Something
Vast
Vast Majority
Journalists
Like
Know
Majority
Read
Same
Want
Happened
Actually
Thing
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
Alveda King
You
Money
Abortion
Will
Minority
Say
High
Percent
Area
Taking
Terminate
Perhaps
Majority
Because
However
Clinics
Children
Want
Poor
Many
Serve
Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Law
Rare
Men
Relates
Lawsuits
Vast
Vast Majority
Facts
Catastrophe
Clear
Catastrophic
Countless
Most
Majority
Judges
Discretion
Often
Controversy
Experiences
Even
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte
Nature
You
Cast
Merit
Majority
Mould
Did
Different
Yours
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
David Boies
Love
You
Constitution
Rights
Decision
Minority
Past
Down
Every
Strikes
Marry
Purpose
Voters
Protect
Majority
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Court Decision
Very
Affirming
Discriminatory
Person
Legislation
Against
Decisions
Bill
Bill Of Rights
Including
Fundamental
Fundamental Rights
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
E. O. Wilson
Challenges
Situation
Economic
Economic Situation
Major
Majority
Improve
Century
Much
Planet
Two
Save
I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.
Elon Musk
Car
Will
Made
States
Hybrid
New
Majority
Within
Years
Prediction
Mean
Electric
Fully
United
United States
Actually
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
Great
History
Changes
Rule
Wrong
Involved
Majority
Principles
Occur
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
Time
Man
People
Intelligence
Worth
Enough
Enough People
Definition
Majority
Intelligent
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
George Will
Democracy
Constitution
Law
Nation
Possibly
Must
Constitute
Some
No Law
Supervision
Unconstitutional
Know
Majority
Accept
Because
Makes
Judicial
Judicial Review
Review
Truly
Trump
American
Preferences
Popular
Popularity
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
Ibrahim Babangida
Leadership
People
Opportunity
Meet
Our
Our People
Must
Economic
Lifetime
Economic Opportunity
Open
New
Fair
Fair Chance
Democratic
Majority
Truly
Up
Expectations
Committed
Being
Fulfilled
Stand
Aspirations
Nigeria
Nigerians
Chance
I see my task as serving the majority of people. The question is, how do you find out what they want, how best to serve them? My answer is to stay close to ordinary people because, at heart, I am one of them.
Ingvar Kamprad
Best
You
Heart
People
Out
Find
Stay
See
Majority
Because
Answer
How
Am
Question
Close
Task
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Them
Serve
Serving
The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.
Jacob Zuma
Will
Seen
Feeling
Country
Overwhelming
Say
Wrong
Majority
Go
Anything
I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.
Jeff Dunham
People
Comedy
Wife
Job
Free
Free Speech
Believe
Addict
Jews
Gays
Laugh
Muslims
Blacks
True
Majority
Make
Sure
Comic
Hispanics
Form
Elderly
Whites
Standup
Last
Christians
Speech
Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority don't support Hillary; they just oppose Donald Trump. And the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't support him; they just oppose Hillary.
Jill Stein
Needs
Silence
Democracy
Election
Oppose
Support
Supporters
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Majority
Him
Clinton
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Just
Where
Even
Now
Right
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