Quotes of Minority - somelinesforyou

“ It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress. ”

- Raymond B. Fosdick

“ A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. ”

- Lord Byron

“ When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. ”

- Brian Aldiss

“ A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. ”

- Leo Baeck

“ 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 its whole weight. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority! ”

- Leonard H. Robbins

“ Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ”

- Ralph W. Sockman

“ What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. ”

- Robert Altman

“ A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. ”

- James Fenimore Cooper

“ Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. ”

- George R. R. Martin

“ O'Neill is in the minority. They take it as a deduction. If it isn't compensation, then what is it? ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004. ”

- John Fund

“ The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. ”

- Art Linkletter

“ Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ”

- Richard H. Dana

“ Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ”

- George Eliot

“ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ”

- Bible

“ The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence. ”

- Art Linkletter

“ Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. ”

- Walter Landor

“ I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. ”

- Althea Gibson

“ I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ This relatively small but highly popular minority is not just pushing the envelope,... They are shooting, torturing and napalming it beyond all recognition and beyond all decency. ”

- Joseph Lieberman
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8