Will Durant Quotes
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.Will Durant
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
Dada Vaswani -
Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.
Karel Reisz -
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
Dalia Mogahed -
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 -
The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we thought they would, and, in fact, have brought us new problems we did not foresee.
Luke Ford
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Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.
Eleanor Smeal -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
Albert Einstein -
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
John Stuart Mill -
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
Coco Chanel -
The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.
John Calvin -
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik Ibsen -
I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.
Csanad Szegedi -
Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?
Albert Meltzer -
Success or failure in minority education means success or failure for the U.S.
Chuck Thompson
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Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.
Eustace Haydon -
Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant