The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is...

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? … the skeleton of our understanding, … and actually they are the majority. … We have here a problem that...

I think if you took a secret ballot in the Senate and House, you’d get a majority of Republicans joining on to those [libertarian] concerns. But the majority of Republicans in both houses see themselves...

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Press reports are pointing to a BOJ move as early as March, but I think the majority of market participants don’t believe that story because such a shift could create volatility before fiscal year-end in...

The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.

The real problem he faces is that 2006 is an election year, and he will be a lame-duck majority leader. His capacity to put together deals in the Senate will be limited by the fact...

This is a new year, with new faces. I’d be willing to bet the majority of guys don’t know anything about that.

This is a hundreds of billions of dollars industry, with the majority of profit coming from in-store sales. A lot of retailers have lost money.

The majority of Arabs and Muslims will band together with our colleagues all over the world to be able to put an end to this horrible scourge of international terrorism. You’ll see a united front.

The notion that the Parliament has been elected, and that laws passed by a majority are valid, seems to matter a lot more in Germany than in France.

It’s a pretty thankless job. We don’t receive a lot of credit from the general public, and the majority of officials I know don’t expect it.

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

We want to optimize the timing for launch of HD-DVD in each market. The majority of [partners] want a large-scale launch, not a gradual launch.

I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That’s what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it...

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

born again” before it is believed.

The majority leader has committed to bringing it up as one of the first items next year,

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.

These rulings, … leave the tobacco industry open to the vast majority and the most severe of the claims they are facing in California. Almost all of these cases involve industry behavior that took place...

If left to the majority Shiites and the Kurds, the draft would be ready by Sunday, but the Sunni Arabs have not agreed yet.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is...

The majority of people still haven’t felt the results of economic reform and aren’t satisfied with our work,

A lot of money was spent in 2004 to produce the results that gave the Republicans their big majority in the Texas delegation. These districts have been drawn to elect either Democrats or Republicans.

Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you, and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%.”...

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what’s called carried interest.

The insurgency, so called, is really the resistance of the Iraqi people. The vast majority of these people are individuals like us. They are resisting because we are occupying their country. Even though we often...

Miraculously, it appears the vast majority got out safely,

Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.

Doesn’t sound like a veto-proof majority to me.

[Kelleher said he protested] bitterly … was the majority leader and I was not.

Sen. Lott should resign from the position of majority leader-elect to make way for another member of the Republican Party whose moral compass is pointed toward improving race relations and not dredging up this nation’s...

The majority of (the time), things are pretty right. And then there’s a play made. It’s polishing, more than anything else. We don’t need to scrap anything. … We need to execute what we are...

We all had this panicked look, … That was the place of last refuge and where the majority of people would be. And along with that, we had a lot more water to walk through.

Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass...

I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

We know that the road to true peace remains hard and uphill, but I’m convinced the vast majority of Arabs and Israelis alike have come to understand that negotiations are the only route to the...

We need to be centrally located where the majority of corn is grown.

Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war...

The silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

It’s hard for the majority of people to accept what they don’t understand.

We hate math,’ say 10 in 4……a majority of Pakistani!

For the majority of that game, the ball was on their side of the field. If we couldn’t get an opening on one side then we were able to feed the ball back to the...

The majority of our drug cases involved marijuana, but we are seeing an increase in other narcotics violations.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn’t have, or what I still wanted.

True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the...

The majority of them were scared.

We don’t have the same bells and whistles that we had when we took over as the majority party, the governing party in the Congress of the 104th, and the Contract With America, and the...

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.