Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Progress in all major fields starts with small groups, not the majority.
- In plain terms
- Minorities lead change, not the masses.
- What can you take from it?
- Support minority voices to drive progress.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do minorities often lead change?
- How can society better support early adopters?
Another view
Majorities eventually adopt these changes to make them effective.
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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
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