Minorities Quotes
595 Minorities quotes by 449 unique authors
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Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given…
— Tony Judt
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What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If…
— Christopher Isherwood
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[Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm…
— Frank Zappa
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes…
— George Orwell
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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure…
— Ray Bradbury
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We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world…
— Tana French
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a…
— Aldo Leopold
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Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
— Cornel West
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Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the…
— Haruki Murakami
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I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.
— Jodi Picoult
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[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself…
— John Stott
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Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary…
— John Stuart Mill
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Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the…
— Ron Paul
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One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure.…
— Stephen Fry
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Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.
— Julian Barnes
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History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
— R.J. Rushdoony
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Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here.…
— George Orwell
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What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on…
— Ronald J. Sider
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting…
— Chris Colfer
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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then —…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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