Quote by Eric Hoffer
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer

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Necessity
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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. – Eric Hoffer

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Be Yourself
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My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Minorities

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag

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Minorities

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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