Badinter Majority Quotes

Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands. ~ Elisabeth Badinter

Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace. ~ Elisabeth Badinter

An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that seemed to fall to the mother alone. ~ Elisabeth Badinter

The message is clear: a good mother breast feeds. Significantly, this good mother shares a sociocultural profile with women in other developed countries: she is over thirty, is a high earning professional, does not smoke, takes prenatal classes, and benefits from a long maternity leave. ~ Elisabeth Badinter

The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt. ~ Elisabeth Badinter

Childless couples, on the other hand, take pleasure in the advantages of being alone: living for each other, doing more things together than parents are able to do, paying more attention to the other person's feelings and desires. They see children as a possible threat to the harmony they are able to take for granted. ~ Elisabeth Badinter

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong. ~ Adrian Rogers

According to American sociologist Kristin Park, who has reviewed most of the surveys carried out on child-free men and women in the last twenty years, the primary and most frequently cited reason for their decision (in 79 percent of surveys) is freedom. These people prized their emotional and financial autonomy, their freedom of movement, and their ability to take advantage of every opportunity for personal fulfillment. The second reason, mentioned in 62 percent of surveys, is marital happiness. After that came professional and financial considerations, fear of overpopulation, and lack of interest or a dislike of children. ~ Elisabeth Badinter

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it. ~ B.R. Ambedkar

Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote ... ~ Gary North

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn. ~ Gerd De Ley

Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote. ~ Gary North

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority. ~ Llewellyn Rockwell

Desperate courage makes One a majority. ~ Andrew Jackson

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce ... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole. ~ Ai-jen Poo

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded. ~ Evo Morales

Fools are in the majority, and they never lack confidence because a fool believes that being in the majority is proof that one is right. ~ James Rozoff

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. ~ Carl Jung

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip. ~ Marco Rubio

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth. ~ John Coltrane

One person should never decide what happens to the majority. ~ Kayla Krantz

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.' Philip Larkin ~ Philip Larkin

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority. ~ Richard Benjamin

The majority is never right, unless it includes me. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article ~ Charles Dickens

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business. ~ Bill Shuster

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man. ~ Laozi

As for our majority ... one is enough. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong. ~ Joseph Campbell

In a democracy, we should be reluctant to take any action that amounts to an attempt to coerce the majority, for such attempts imply the rejection of majority rule, to which there is no acceptable alternative. There may, of course, be cases where the majority decision is so appalling that coercion is justified, whatever the risk. The obligation to obey a genuine majority decision is not absolute. We show our respect for the principle, not by blind obedience to the majority, but by regarding ourselves as justified in disobeying only in extreme circumstances. ~ Peter Singer

Majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism. ~ Mark Twain

On Obama: "He was elected by a majority, but the majority doesn't get to decide who we execute. ~ Rand Paul

Despite support from a majority of Americans, a majority of the House of Representatives, and a majority of the Senate, Keystone XL is stuck - stalled by special-interest politics. ~ Kevin McCarthy

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. ~ Robert Ringer

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog?
It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right. ~ Henrik Ibsen

...The Civil Majority takes its root from the quote by Johanna Hemlock, a nineteenth-century philosopher and Prime. The Civil Majority seeks to limit House involvement in politics."

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"In a country ruled by a civil majority even the smallest minority enjoys greater protection than a majority living in a country where power is hoarded by select few," Cornelius said. ~ Ilona Andrews

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. ~ Thomas Jefferson

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority. ~ Ellen Glasgow

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely. ~ Rachel Maddow

I think good-looking naked ladies turn on the majority of men. ~ Steve Albini

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side. ~ Criss Jami

Watch what everyone else does
do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. ~ Earl Nightingale

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy. ~ Samuel P. Huntington

Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis. ~ James Taylor

If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none. ~ John McAfee

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes. ~ Mathias Dopfner

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority. ~ William Inge

The majority of life on Earth is microbial ~ Caleb Scharf

The man with courage is a majority. ~ Andrew Young

Rules of Order state that ... No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business of the organisation ... but No majority has a right to prevent a minority from peacefully attempting to become the majority. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

A democracy can only be produced if a majority movement is built. The guerilla strategy depends on a collapse of will in the ruling class to produce the social crisis out of which revolution occurs, whether the majority favors it or not. ~ Anarchist Communist Collective

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion. ~ Samuel Johnson

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit. ~ Tucker Max

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand. ~ J. D. Pardo

It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound. ~ Grimes

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. ~ John Fowles

Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing. ~ Rhonda Byrne

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, ~ Seth Klarman

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority. ~ John Knox

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect. ~ Marquis De Sade

I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone. ~ Penn Jillette

The right of the majority is absolute. ~ Benjamin Tucker

The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power. ~ John Stuart Mill

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people. ~ Van Jones

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. ~ George Bernard Shaw

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized. ~ Najib Razak

When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered. ~ Tony Benn

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end. ~ Blaise Pascal

We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes. ~ Bryant McGill

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.' ~ Sam Rayburn

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition. ~ John Robbins

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong. ~ Francis Schaeffer

This is a president [Barack Obama] who came into office in 2008 with a big majority in the House and with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Because of his policies and his conduct in office, seven years later, we have our largest majority in the House since 1928, and we have a majority in the Senate and we have 31 of the 60 governorships. ~ Chris Christie

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority. ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The majority merely disagreed with other people's proposals, and, as so often happens in these disasters, the best course always seemed the one for which it was now too late. ~ Tacitus

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority. ~ Bell Hooks

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. ~ Brian Moore

The majority of my audience has always been women. ~ Teddy Pendergrass

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules. ~ Evan Esar

The majority of people do not accept my choices. ~ Nadya Suleman

Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. ~ Henrik Ibsen

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful. ~ Brian Tracy

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. ~ Lillian Hellman

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans. ~ Edward Kennedy

There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves. ~ Christopher Hitchens

A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad. ~ Hassan Nasrallah

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

One man in the right will finally get to be a majority. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. ~ Albert Ellis

Being on the side of the majority is often a sign that you are wrong, or the most unlikely to be right. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices. ~ Clare Boothe Luce