Minority Quotes

537 Minority quotes by 425 unique authors

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. — George Orwell
Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For… — Noam Chomsky
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg… — Tom Holt
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of… — Mahatma Gandhi
The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich.… — Tom Robbins
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a… — Amin Maalouf
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for… — Emma Goldman
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take… — Edward Abbey
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol. — Joel Salatin
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
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… — George Orwell
I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in… — Isaac Asimov
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you… — Anne Lamott
If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of… — Margaret Cho
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. — Joanna Russ
It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities. — Naguib Mahfouz
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will… — Robert Kirkman
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really… — Soren Kierkegaard
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction… — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid… — Ray Bradbury
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than… — C.S. Lewis
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is… — John Fowles

Who Wrote These Minority Quotes

425 authors contributed a total of 537 Minority Quotes, led by these top contributors: