Minority Quotes

537 Minority quotes by 425 unique authors

The only feasible solution is a political reconciliation... Mr. President, the time is now to put pressure on the Iraqi government to change. That is… — Mike Coffman
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. — Eric Hoffer
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for… — Ayn Rand
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority… — William E. Simon
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… — Abraham Lincoln
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ...… — Freeman Dyson
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than… — Pat Robertson
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize… — Albert Einstein
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but… — Henry David Thoreau
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,… — James Madison
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. — Mikhail Bakunin
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement… — Leonard Read
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. — Robert Breault
Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the study of things… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
The question is: Do we have a shadow government? And if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is guiding us through? And where… — Glenn Beck
Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the… — Ross Garnaut
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind. — Ayn Rand
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. — William E. Gladstone
When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to… — Stanley Crouch
It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election. — Unknown Author

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