Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Majority Quotes

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

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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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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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We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

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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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One is a majority if he is right.

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

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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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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