majorities

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.

Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority.

The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

For the majority of people, smoking has a beneficial effect.