Popular Quotes

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face.

- Raymond Mortimer

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

- Dean William R. Inge

How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!

- Leonard H. Robbins

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

- Erasmus

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

- Edmund Burke

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

- Alfred E. Smith

We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

- Benjamin Franklin

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

- Henrik Ibsen

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

- Wendell Phillips

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

- Raymond B. Fosdick

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

- Carl T. Rowan

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

- Winston Churchill

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

- Chinese proverb

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

- Japanese proverb