Majorities And Minorities Quotes

#1. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

James K. Polk

#2. The building's identity resided in the ornament.

Louis Sullivan

#3. It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.

Keith Preston

#4. Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.

Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

#5. This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

Hillary Clinton

#7. The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

Lysander Spooner

#9. 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 majorities, and the smallest minority on earth is the individual.

Ayn Rand

#10. Hope shouldn't increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

Yasmin Mogahed

#11. It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.

Misty Copeland

#12. When he was rough, my body soared. When he was gentle, he slayed me.

Juliette Cross

#13. Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Robert Moses

#14. By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the assent, expressed or implied, of the governed,, and be subject to such limitations as they may impose.

John C. Calhoun

#15. Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Alan Barth

#16. The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

Spike Jonze

#18. With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#19. Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Stephen King

#20. History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#21. To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

Lysander Spooner

#22. Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a "void". Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they'll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they're nowhere to be found.

Nicole McKay