„There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so.“

„Everywhere in the world except in Asia Minor, the three great Semitic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - are intruders; that indigenous Asia is Brahmanist, Confucianist, Buddhist, Taoist; indigenous Europe is pagan; that in Europe, Christianity is a superimposition; in Asia, Islam is.“

—  Ralph Borsodi American economist 1886 - 1977

The Challenge of Asia. Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 1, (quoting from Ram Swarup, Hindu View of Christianity and Islam, Voice of India, New Delhi, 1992, pp. 48-49)

„Southeast Asia is the Bosnia of historical linguistics, with a lovely landscape strewn with land mines!“

—  Paul K. Benedict American anthropologist, mental health professional, and linguist 1912 - 1997

Contexto: Welcome to the field of Southeast Asian linguistics! This welcome comes with a warning: Southeast Asia is the Bosnia of historical linguistics, with a lovely landscape strewn with land mines! … 'Look-alikes' (look less and less alike the more we know about them) abound, as in Malay bĕras and Wr. Tibetan 'bras for 'rice', as do also unlikely-appearing cognate sets such as Thai pu 'grandfather' and Japanese o:i 'nephew'.

„What are the outstanding events, then, of these past fourteen years? First in importance, I think, and most striking of all, has been the rise and consolidation of the Soviet Union, the U. S. S. R. or the Union of Socialist and Soviet Republics, as it is called. I have told you already something of the enormous difficulties which Soviet Russia had to face in its fight for existence. That it won in spite of them is one of the wonders of this century. The Soviet system spread all over the Asiatic parts of the former Tsarist Empire, in Siberia right up to the Pacific and in Central Asia to within hail of the Indian frontier. Separate Soviet republics were formed, but they federated together into one Union, and this is now the U. S. S. R. This Union covers an enormous area in Europe and Asia, which is about one-sixth of the total land area of the world. The area is very big, but bigness by itself does not mean much, and Russia, and much more so Siberia and Central Asia, were very backward. The second wonder that the Soviets performed was to transform great parts of this area out of all recognition by prodigious schemes of planning. There is no instance in recorded history of such rapid advance of a people. Even the most backward areas in Central Asia have gone ahead with a rush which we in India might well envy.“

—  Jawaharlal Nehru, livro Glimpses of World History

Glimpses of World History (1949)

„We are often told "Colonialism is dead." Let us not be deceived or even soothed by that. 1 say to you, colonialism is not yet dead. How can we say it is dead, so long as vast areas of Asia and Africa are unfree.“

—  Sukarno first President of the Republic of Indonesia 1901 - 1970

Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference

„Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson… It is appalling that these ignorant and irresponsible men should be cutting Asia Minor to bits as if they were dividing a cake…“

—  Harold Nicolson British diplomat, author, diarist and politician 1886 - 1968

Paris Peace Conference, Spring, 1919

„To serve Armenia is to serve the Civilization.“

—  William Ewart Gladstone British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom 1809 - 1898

A letter from 1 May, 1896, Hawarden, as cited in: [Mesrovb Jacob Seth, Armenians in India, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Work of Original Research, https://books.google.com/books?id=BlreO8bmK30C&pg=PA91, 1937, Asian Educational Services, 978-81-206-0812-2, 91–]
1890s

„A Continent is a great quantity of Land, not separated by any Sea from the rest of the World, as the whole Continent of Europe, Asia, Africa.“

—  Peter Heylin English ecclesiastic and author of polemical, historical, political and theological tracts 1599 - 1662

Cosmographie (1657)

„Truth is so large OR people’s minds are so small that they’re only able to nibble on the edges – and when growth brings them to the area where they can feed on truth itself, as they move in and eat of the seed, there they become truth.“

—  Eugene J. Martin American artist 1938 - 2005

„We have a Gujarat State Wide Area Network. The optical fibre network. We are [the] largest in Asia, number one. We are number one in Asia. And we are second largest in the world. Can you image how we are using the technology?“

—  Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India 1950

2008, Speech, 14 January 2008

„Today, our country has ushered into an era of technological advancements, when current achievements oblige us to mobilize all our forces and work with a maximum effectiveness and goal-orientation. Therefore, our goal is a single one, namely: to rally around our values, to be proud of our achievements and to be confident with the future. This is the way in which Armenia can move ahead. Armenia should improve more than the previous day. All of us should constantly remember this. All of us should remember the logic of a better Armenia, a safer Armenia, a prosperous Armenia, and a powerful Armenia… Let there be an atmosphere of kindness and tolerance throughout all our undertakings. I am thankful…and onward to a new Armenia, onward to a prosperous Armenia.“

—  Serzh Sargsyan Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia 1954

Government of the Republic of Armenia http://www.gov.am/old/enversion/premier_2/primer_home_S.Sargsyan.htm?mat=2341 (December 20, 2007)

„I was bypassed in 1932 possibly because of my academic handicaps and so called social position in life. I was still an ordinary soldier holding a minor rank.“

—  Dhyan Chand Indian field hockey player 1905 - 1979

Earlier when in 1932 when his claims for Captaincy was overlooked in page 60
Quote, Olympics - The India Story

„[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!“

—  Isaac Leib Peretz Yiddish language author and playwright 1852 - 1915

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 24.

„And fully in keeping with the demagogic prejudices of the party, no A. R. F leader would seriously propose participating cooperatively in the struggle of the people of w:Turkey against the fascist regime there… While the A. R. F. reprints maps showing the borders of a supposed "Armenia" proposed in the unratified w:Treaty of Sèvres, the party's literature ignores the native population within the borders of this "Armenia." It should be pointed out that this population, consisting of w:Kurds, Turks, Lazes and others, exceeds six million. One wonders what kind of Armenia the A. R. F. envisions in which Armenians will be an absolute—if not minuscule—minority…“

—  Monte Melkonian National Hero of Armenia 1957 - 1993

Fonte: The Right to Struggle (1993), P. 57.

„Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.“

—  Eric Hoffer, livro The True Believer

Section 29
The True Believer (1951), Part Two: The Potential Converts

„Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.“

—  Terry Pratchett, livro Feet of Clay

Fonte: Feet of Clay

„The society of ]]organizations\\ is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.“

—  Peter F. Drucker American business consultant 1909 - 2005

Fonte: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 284

„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.“

—  John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton British politician and historian 1834 - 1902

The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Contexto: 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.

„The Columbia faculty was not, of course, composed wholly of young skeptics and esthetes. By any count of academic noses, they were a small minority.“

—  Whittaker Chambers Defected Communist spy 1901 - 1961

Fonte: Cold Friday (1964), p. 119

„The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history.“

—  Rudolf Rocker, livro Nationalism and Culture

Fonte: Nationalism and Culture (1937), Ch. 1 "The Insufficiency of Economic Materialism"
Contexto: The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.