#majority

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

The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#majority #party #point #point of view #represents

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise. ↗

— Nick Carter

#around #because #being #diet #due

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. ↗

— John Cornyn

#being used #bipartisan #blocks #here #i

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

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#allows #american #american people #country #go

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#dead #i #laugh #majority #make

In economics, the majority is always wrong. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #majority #wrong