“A lunatic is just a minority of one.”
Variant: Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
Source: 1984
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English author and journalist 1903–1950Related quotes
Inaugural Address (4 March 1845)
Context: By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
To his son Paul Jr regarding the execution of his friend Ignaty Kazahov, as quoted in "The Undiscovered Paul Robeson" (2001) by Paul Robeson Jr, p. 306
“In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's side, is a majority.”
1850s, Lecture at Brooklyn (1859)
1960s, (1963)
At Campina Grande Airport https://theintercept.com/2018/09/25/ideias-nazifascistas-bolsonarismo/ on 8 February 2018. Brazil presidential candidate Bolsonaro's most controversial quotes https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazil-presidential-candidate-bolsonaros-most-controversial-quotes-012652084.html. Yahoo!, 29 September 2018.
“Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”
Source: Whiskey and Water
“What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.”