Quotes About Silent Majority

#1. The Dead are a larger army than any ever assembled, and they follow no leader, fear no threat, and accept no bribe or compromise. The Dead are the silent majority, and should they ever decide to say something, it will be the new law of the land.

Isaac Marion

#2. The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

Tariq Ramadan

#3. No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

John Mortimer

#4. People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

Amy Goodman

#5. Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#6. When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

Gerd De Ley

#7. The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#9. Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

Richard M. Nixon

#10. But the silent majority and I do have one memorial, at least. The Disaster. We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in Spring. This is not enough.

A. L. Kennedy

#11. I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#12. Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

Edmund Burke

#13. 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

#14. Forming culture is not a one-time event.

Matt Chandler

#15. His motivation was to rattle the good people of Greenwich mean time, have them raise their heads from their tea and scones, and say, Oh, yes. Africa. For a fleeting moment they'd have the same awareness of us that we had of them.

Abraham Verghese

#16. Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

Bertrand Russell

#17. 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

#18. The great silent majority.

Richard M. Nixon

#19. Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Alexandre Dumas

#20. The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

Brian Moore

#21. Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

M. Scott Peck

#22. A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

Tom Hayden

#23. In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.

Lindsey Vonn

#24. Did you ever hear
Of the frolic fairies dear?
They're a blessed little race,
Peeping up in fancy's face,
In the valley, on the hill,
By the fountain and the rill;
Laughing out between the leaves
That the loving summer weaves.

Frances Sargent Osgood

#25. The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

Robert Reich

#26. Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.

Tracy Winegar

#27. Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Constance Baker Motley

#28. She didn't do people, dammit. She did books. A world of difference

Vic James

#29. Be my brother or I will kill you.

Nicolas Chamfort