Minority View Quotes

#1. In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear.

Michael Kinsley

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

Joel Salatin

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

M.M. Kaye

#4. Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. I love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can't you say it, Hero?

Elizabeth Hoyt

#5. Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Edward Gibbon

#6. I must settle for freedom in this modern time

Leila Aboulela

#7. I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

Lewis Baltz

#8. In a wacky way, she felt as if they belonged to each other. Two stray, bad-ass loners who didn't know how to handle people.

Jennifer Probst

#9. It's a good time for black people to be alive.

Nina Simone

#10. It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

Duke Of Wellington

#11. I close my eyes and listen to the ocean.
I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind would feel on my face and the sound of his voice screaming my name through his laughter. The waves would crash like applause. God, I remember when I used to be afraid of the ocean.

Hannah Moskowitz

#12. It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

Helen Clark

#13. I write the drama, I don't live it.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#14. Even though we are a nation that's becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.

Roland Martin

#15. But I wanted to finish your book.

Scott Westerfeld

#16. At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government ... But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.

James Madison

#17. I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

Priyanka Chopra

#18. 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 side. However, the truth is the truth irrespective of how many people like to embrace it!

Israelmore Ayivor

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

Duop Chak Wuol

#20. Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Edward Abbey

#21. They sound like the philosophy of a man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he cannot feel the ache.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#22. I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform ... not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.

William O. Douglas

#23. If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.

Abraham Lincoln

#24. In 1967, only 4% of Americans approved of interracial marriage, yet the Supreme Court dismissed the desire of 96% of Americans who did not support it in order to preserve the rights of the minority.

Kathy Baldock

#25. Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

Lion Feuchtwanger