Famous quotes containing the words vast majority, vast and/or majority:
“We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truth ... unless we can trust to the human minds having such a power of guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.”
—Charles S. Pierce (18391914)
“There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials ... despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.”
—Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)
“In republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
—James Madison (17511836)