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Letter "M" » minority
«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»
Author: James D. Watson
| About:
Evolution,
Principles,
Religion
| Keywords:
adherence, doctrinaire, doctrinaires, evolution, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, minority, objections, reasoning, theory of, theory of evolution
«What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.»
Author: Robert J. Ringer
| Keywords:
candidate, candidates, election, elects, group of people, hand-picked, majority rule, minority, minority group, picked, politically, propped, propping, props, prop up, selected, two-handed
«What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.»
«What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
characterize, characterizes, exceptional, Forces of Evil, insignificant, marvelous, member, minority, minority group
«Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.»
«Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
custom, minority, originates, originate in, originating, precedent
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