When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  • -- Tom Daschle 汤姆·达施勒

当你是少数派时,不管你的议程是什么,你都不会拥有作为多数派成员所拥有的自由度。

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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

被少数人压迫是不好的,但被多数人压迫更坏。因为群众中有一种潜在的力量,叫它发挥作用,少数人是很难抗拒的。但出于全体人民的绝对意志,除了叛国之外,没有任何呼吁,没有任何救赎,没有任何庇护。

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

据我所知,只有一小部分数学家,甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者,接受这样的观点,即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。

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.

持不同意见的少数人只有在能够将自己的意志强加于多数人时才会感到自由:它最痛恨的是多数人的不同意见。

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

少数人有时是对的;大多数人总是错的。