Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

No minority should climb all over the majority.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Liberty and equality do not … sit happily side by side. Indeed, in many respects they are in conflict.

An issue between a people and a class

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.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

In the nineteenth century exceptional [discriminatory] laws for the Jews can be nothing more than a blunder and an absurdity.

If the [Sunni] majority gets riled, it will act – a matter that could lead to the complete annihilation of the [Shiite] minority.

Human rights -- especially those of non-Moslems or non-Arabs -- simply do not have the same absolute value that they do in the West.

It is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere -- in fact that is the only question which in the least affects the results of the elections

Turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

The class struggle, to which Marx has specially drawn attention, is a real factor, the tokens of which are to be found on every page of history. But the struggle is not confined only to two classes: the proletariat and the capitalist; it occurs between an infinite number of groups with different interests, and above all between the elites contending for power. The existence of these groups may vary in duration, they may be based on permanent or more or less temporary characteristics. In the most savage peoples, and perhaps in all, sex determines two of these groups.

An ethnic minority is much more vulnerable when it is accused of being a fifth column.

…in every city are found two diverse humors, and this arises from the fact that the common people desire neither to be commanded nor oppressed by the great, and the powerful men desire to command and oppress the people..

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that—however bloody—can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.

The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put everybody else out of their Protection

The struggle for human rights and democracy are not always the same thing. Sometimes what you have to do is break cultural attitudes. Democracies aren’t necessarily very good at that…. It’s very hard for oppressed minorities to be given their due.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives

There is no kind oppression visited on any minority in Europe which the six-county Nationalists have not endured.

Conflict is part of the human condition and can never be eliminated. Neither can the desire for power and the tendency to abuse it.

Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next.