Aspect Quote by Edward S. Herman

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of…

— John Adams

“Yet in his own estimate, one theme in particular dominated all others: the growing tyranny of the majority, the ever-increasing and most formidable barriers…

— Richard D. Heffner

“There is another powerful factor which works against the chance of any kind of peaceful reconstruction and which is equally negative for all levels…

— Andrei Amalrik

“The 'destiny that eyes us from the future' makes us neglect our duties to those close to us. Third-Worldism stressed the crimes of colonialism…

— Pascal Bruckner

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“People are hurt and afraid at a subtle psychological level—and are therefore self-absorbed, incapable of taking on larger perspectives and incapable of acting upon…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of…

— Martin Buber

“We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of…

— Margaret MacMillan

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have…

— Tom Robbins

“However divided we may feel within ourselves, it is the sum total of our warring fractions that make us who we are—fragmentary but indivisible.”

— Maria Popova

The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised,…

— Mark McMorris