History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
Josh McDowell

The minority yields to the majority!
Deng Xiaoping

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
Jane Rule

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
David Hackworth

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
Brad Paisley

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
Robert Anton Wilson

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

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.
Barney Frank

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
Barney Frank

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.
Barney Frank

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
Friedrich Schiller

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Friedrich Schiller

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
George Steiner

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik Ibsen

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
Mitch Daniels