Definition of Majority

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Majority

The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.

The military rank of a major.

The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.

The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.

Ancestors; ancestry.

The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.

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Majority Quotations

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mohandas Gandhi

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
Edward Kennedy

Majority Translations

majority in Dutch is meerderheid, meerderjarigheid
majority in German is Mehrheit
majority in Italian is maggioranza
majority in Portuguese is maioria
majority in Swedish is majoritet, flertal

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