Minority Quotes

537 Minority quotes by 425 unique authors

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint… — Richard M. Nixon
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than… — James Madison
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be… — Ray Bradbury
Truth is for the minority. — Baltasar Gracian
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated… — James Madison
Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the… — James Fitzjames Stephen
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority. — Hugh Dalton
If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model… — Edward S. Herman
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they… — Edward Bernays
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority… — Conrad Black
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible… — Ludwig von Mises
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out… — Freeman Dyson
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few.… — Pope Francis
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly… — Unknown Author
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically… — Leonardo DiCaprio
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that… — James Madison
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government… — Randolph Bourne
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat… — Christopher Isherwood
In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have… — Walter Lippmann
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by… — Henry David Thoreau
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a… — Walter Lippmann
The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority. — Tessa Jowell
On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have… — Jim Sillars

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