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Minority Quotes by George Orwell
- "A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.
- ...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate,…
- There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
- Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
- Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you…
- For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate…
- 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…
- 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.…
More Minority Quotes
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the… — Samuel Adams
- The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us… — Glenn Beck
- Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the… — John O. Brennan
- When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. — Gwendolyn Brooks
- Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less… — Gwendolyn Brooks
- Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day… — William Jennings Bryan
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke
- Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle
- Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as… — Graydon Carter
- In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately… — Dick Cheney