Minority Report Quotes

• In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Kings, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Respect, Religious

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Land, Civilization

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• The dead don't die. They look on and help.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Funeral, Looks

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 2 February 1923, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

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• A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

  Stephen King

  Running, Minorities, Want

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Views, Minorities

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Saving Private Ryan, Lists, Minorities

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

  Roger Ebert

  Technology, Trying, Minorities

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• Go watch (Minority Report) if you can bear Tom Cruise for that long

  Kara Swisher

  Long, Watches, Minorities

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• Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Voice, Minorities, Stills

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• I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

  Steven Spielberg

  Creating, Minorities, Faster

  "Steven Spielberg’s ‘Robopocalypse’ Delayed Indefinitely 70". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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• When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

  Susan Orlean

  Fun, Moving, Hands

  "Connected" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 17, 2010.

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• A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

  Joel Silver

  Running, Minorities, Elements

  "Producer Joel Silver on SPLICE, LOGAN’S RUN, SWAMP THING, THE APPARATION, PROJECT-X, UNKNOWN WHITE MALE". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. May 22, 2010.

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