Minority Quotes

537 Minority quotes by 425 unique authors

As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the… — Yann Martel
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… — George Orwell
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who… — Lynne Truss
Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good,… — Ellen Hopkins
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since… — Martin Amis
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong. — Jodi Picoult
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
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
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
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
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
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. — Julian Barnes
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
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
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
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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