Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Majority Quotes, Mediocrity Quotes

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Majority Quotes

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

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Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Majority Quotes , Doe Quotes

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

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The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Passion Quotes , Majority Quotes

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Majority Quotes

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

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God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

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The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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