Majority Minority Quotes
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If a minority culture doesn't accept you as much as majority culture, think about following a path of non-conformity
— Paul Isaacs
We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people
— Hillary Clinton
I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.
— Sigmund Freud
While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline ... When he is in the minority ... he is against it.
— Anastas Mikoyan
The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.
— James Madison
Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.
— Edward Kennedy
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
— Pete Sessions
We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
— Thomas Jefferson
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
— Henrik Ibsen
The food of the minority is the hunger of the majority.
— Eduardo Galeano
When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.
— Mathias Dopfner
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
— Samuel Adams
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
— William E. Gladstone
World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.
— Adolf Hitler
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Moral relativism denies the "immoral" minority the chance to argue logically against a "moral" majority, if there is no standard
— J. Warner Wallace
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
— Edmund Burke
There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.
— Hudson Taylor
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.
— Mikhail Bakunin
You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.
— Anthony Scaramucci
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
— James Madison
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
The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.
— Tessa Jowell
Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.
— Lysander Spooner
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The majority rejoice in the 'silo' mentality but the minority seek 'think tanks' whose advice brings significant reforms
— Paul Gitwaza
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
— William Jennings Bryan
The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The minority yields to the majority!
— Deng Xiaoping
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
— G.K. Chesterton
The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.
— Paul Robeson
No minority should climb all over the majority.
— Lech Walesa
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
— James Madison
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
— Henrik Ibsen
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
— James F. Cooper
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
— Robert Breault
when you are a small minority and you own the majority's wealth, security is naturally a primary consideration.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.
— E.M.Foster
The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
— Gertrude Atherton
It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.
— John C. Calhoun
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[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.
— James Madison
When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.
— Marion Marechal-Le Pen
Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
— Amy Richards
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
— Jesse Jackson
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
— Mark Twain
The most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.
— Anna Quindlen
The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.
— Murray Rothbard
The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
— Barney Frank
A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance.
— Russell Brand
The majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority's deeds
— Deon Potgieter
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
— Will Durant
