Peter Abrahams Quotes

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.

A privilege accruing to the majority ceases to be such.

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

Yes, I am going to join the Majority and you know I have always preferred Minorities.

Being a member of the majority is more fulfilling than being a member of the majority.

I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.

For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.

The elite interests must not crowd out the interests of the citizens.

We’ve gone down the road of multiculturalism, which ostensibly says that all minorities have equal status to the majority, The result has been that we have handed minorities a stick with which to beat the majority.

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

The majority of people wherever found ought in all questions to govern the minority.

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many, for the gain of a few.

From the day I was born, there has always existed a huge disconnect between the stories often told by the elite and those I hear from ordinary people about our country although we live in the places; and witness the same events around us.

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised

The Islamic order can only be established in countries where Muslims represent the majority of the population. If this is not the case, the Islamic order is reduced to mere power (as the other element -- an Islamic society -- is missing) and may turn to violence

The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.

Many will equate words with violence, claiming that harsh criticism and invective are akin to physical abuse. According to this view, violence may be inflicted upon a person merely by offending them. Anyone who claims to believe this, despite never having experienced actual fist-in-their-face, gun-at-their-back, war-in-their-streets physical violence, may need to check their privilege. … if we tear down the distinction between words and violence, then why not simply use violence to solve our problems as a first rather than a last resort?

Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.