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)

He’s basically a good man. But he doesn’t know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after your mother. He can’t know me, not the way I know him. Maybe some of...

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

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense...

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.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

[In the article] Um, I don’t think that’s a good idea, … Normally, I find myself in the minority…Like the lone man sitting amongst the audience during a Dr. Phil episode taping, I usually find...

You can be with the ‘truth’ or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the ‘truth’. Those who are with the ‘truth’ are a minority, whom you may...

He’s worked very hard to try to overcome that … (but) as a minority member of the Senate, of course, accomplishments are thin. There’s not a policy record there. There’s not successes to point to.

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

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

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain...

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

The path Fiji is on, of denying the normal democratic rights to a minority because of their race, is utterly unacceptable to the international community,

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. The man in the worst confusion will end his life without...

If you can tag every Pakistani men as terrorists, you can definitely tag every Indian men as rapists… That’s how the minority make an identity for the nation.

Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass...

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have...

True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the...

What’s a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

It’s inexcusable, … We’re going to march ourselves right into the minority and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

We want it to be a mandate that will put an end to any small group or minority trying to hijack Palestinian decision-making,

The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had in common. As I lay in bed at night, the sky outside my window reflecting the...

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.

The minority yields to the majority!

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that’s a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on...

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

Aisin, which is minority-controlled by Toyota, has interesting shareholders they have to answer to,

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

He did not accept permanent minority status for House Republicans, and that was a very different way of thinking. He helped get them there and keep them there.

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2....

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. To invent is to discern, to choose.

Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?

A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. (‘The Universal and the Particular’)” … In claiming the lesbian point of view as universal,...

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

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.

The truth does not need a number of supporters for authenticity. One person among the lot can be the only truthful out of the ten; 11 people out of 12 may be on the truthful...

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by...

At the time, there was no minority banking service in New Orleans.

There are some outstandingly qualified minority coaches, and one of the reasons I spoke out is that the ones I came in contact with all wanted a I-A job, as do all of our 10,000...

I thought we were getting beyond stereotypes, especially considering the success of minority coaches in our league. But that didn’t carry out in the hiring process this time. It didn’t and we have to double...

There’s one thing you can’t learn in a segregated school as a minority. You can’t learn to operate in an integrated society. The same is true for whites who grow up attending all white schools....

In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the...

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.

We believe this partnership with FEMSA will strengthen Kaiser’s overall position in the Brazilian market. By maintaining a minority ownership interest and the possibility of launching Coors Light in Brazil, we expect to continue to...