Powerful Minority Quotes

#1. There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

Bertrand Russell

#2. To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

Randal Marlin

#3. Christopher, like most people, didn't like his universe being unfathomable, so I doubted that a Zen koan would help him.

Scarlett Thomas

#4. Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Woodrow Wilson

#5. Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.

Donald Horne

#6. Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

Tran Duc Luong

#7. It takes a child to say the unsayable.

Nick Hornby

#8. Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

Philip Wylie

#9. Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

John O. Brennan

#10. Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.

Peace Pilgrim

#11. The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

William Faulkner

#12. If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Gordon Lightfoot

#13. Christianity always flourishes most as a life-giving minority, not as a powerful majority. It is through subversive, countercultural acts of love, justice, and service for the common good that Christianity has always gained the most ground.

Scott Sauls

#14. By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

Francis Ford Coppola

#15. While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

Conrad Black

#16. [N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,

H.G.Wells

#17. We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

#18. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

Robert Green Ingersoll