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Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, — Ray Bradbury

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority. — Mariella Frostrup

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government. — Jerrold Nadler

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority. — Sigmund Freud

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. — Thabo Mbeki

There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority. — Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev

The intelligent minority are a "specialized class" who are responsible for setting policy and for "the formation of a sound public opinion, — Noam Chomsky

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority — Killer Mike

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans. — Edward Kennedy

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances. — Tom Freston

In place of Revenge, the Minority Mindset teaches to seek Peace and Reconciliation — Paul Gitwaza

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. — Peter Drucker

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them. — Edward Burns

I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works. — Dan Webster

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. — Ayn Rand

Men in authority are now a threatened minority. — Ilana Mercer

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

The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority. — Max Brooks

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

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world — Charles Spurgeon

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

Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users. — Douglas Crockford

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority. — Noam Chomsky

I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness. — Frederic Raphael

I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era. — Lee Daniels

I did not regard it as a moral issue, but as a medical issue. A minority of women will always want an abortion. Therefore it must be done properly. — Jennifer Worth

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll

One thing about change hasn't changed: it still fascinates some people, frightens others, and provides a good living for a prophetic minority. — Warren W. Wiersbe

I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority. — Thorin

We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests. — George Lincoln Rockwell

I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one. — Alfred Enoch

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. — James Madison

A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will. — Duop Chak Wuol

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me. — Henry A. Kissinger

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. — Adam Smith

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. — James F. Cooper

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong. — Jodi Picoult

The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players. — Agnieszka Holland

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country. — John C. Calhoun

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. — Henrik Ibsen

Rich white guys. That's the true minority. — Cheech Marin

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

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy. — Robert Caro

The minority evolves whereas the majority just revolves — S.E. Sever

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue — Samuel Adams

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. — Joanna Russ

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it. — Roger Ebert

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity. — David Novak

Go watch (Minority Report) if you can bear Tom Cruise for that long — Kara Swisher

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else. — Gwendolyn Brooks

The majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority's deeds — Deon Potgieter

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. — Vivienne Westwood

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. — Will Durant

A society that is controlled by an elite minority group who use the population as a food source, will never know civility — Alejandro C. Estrada

It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides. — E.M.Foster

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority. — Albert Camus

Moreover, in those instances where the political success of a minority group has come first, the result has often been slower socioeconomic progress. — Jason L. Riley

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years. — Fethullah Gulen

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed — Lee Harvey Oswald

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets. — Karel Reisz

I hate that the actions of a minority can influence the opinions of a majority. — Sarah Ayoub

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

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. — Aldo Leopold

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority. — Tom Daschle

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. — Samuel Adams

Being a member of a minority race doesn't mean being a minority achiever. — Ben Carson

White America is in the minority. — Malcolm X

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community. — Jimmy Wales

I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more. — Dan Webster

The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do. — Gary Keller

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

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority. — William Friedkin

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 minority? — Amin Maalouf

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

Truth is for the minority. — Baltasar Gracian

Everyone wanted a life less ordinary. And only a tiny minority ever got it, and even they probably didn't appreciate it much. — Mick Herron

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media. — Amy Goodman

I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard. — M.M. Kaye

All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority. — James Burke

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. — Abba Eban

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

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol. — Takashi Murakami

Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled. — Alexandra Adornetto

when you are a small minority and you own the majority's wealth, security is naturally a primary consideration. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk. — Terry Pratchett

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. — Thomas Carlyle

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next. — Gertrude Atherton

Poetry's packaged as a late-night slot, a quote minority taste unquote, like water-skiing or goat-fucking or something. — Julian Barnes

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. — George Orwell

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA. — Clarence Thomas

Faithful people have always been in a marked minority. — Arthur W. Pink

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. — George Orwell

Don't get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong. — Linda Rawson

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan. — Carol Leifer

No minority should climb all over the majority. — Lech Walesa

[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. — James Madison