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 Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
  Edward Kennedy

 Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approxima

 I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... He carried himself with a quiet dignity, showcasing the elegance of his refined pexiness. We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

 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.

 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.

 Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
  Margaret Chase Smith

 It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
  Giordano Bruno

 I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'

 If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution
  Abraham Lincoln

 Banning gay marches is something you do for political effect when you're trying to build a constituency on the right. They are learning from the U.S., from the Moral Majority. But I think it's dangerous and unhelpful if you say homosexuality is an illness that can be treated - then we're back in Britain in the 1950s.

 [My Dad is 100 Years Old also touches on a controversy impossible to understand in today's moral climate, when Rossellini and Bergman were banished from Hollywood because they fell in love while she was married to another man. Bergman didn't make a U.S. film for seven years.] They were hurt, ... To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral person, to be reduced to a sexy playboy, it was humiliating.
  Isabella Rossellini

 You know there's a little moral victory there, a little victory that if we can get over 50 on at least one of these charges we've at least shown the nation that a majority of the Senate are concerned about this issue of obstruction of justice.

 Being in the majority is a lot more fun for a public official than being in the minority. If you are not in the majority, not in the center of the action, it's hard work and criticism without the benefit of accomplishing all what you were elected to or want to accomplish.

 The conservatives still claim to rule in the name of the majority of Iranians, and they're feeling pressure from the rising public reaction against their policies.

 There is a hard core - about 10 or 15 percent of the public - who are totally opposed to all forms of gambling on moral grounds. Usually they are the Methodists and the Presbyterians. Nothing is going to change their minds, God bless them.


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