The inevitable, tragic corollary of civilization is…

“Populace above, populace below! What are "poor" and "rich"...”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a…

— Dick Cavett

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though…

— John Ridley

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

— Edward Coke

“A large populace held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the…

— Frank Herbert

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

— Phylicia Rashad

“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted…

— Criss Jami

A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class.

— Mark Pocan

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear…

— Rick Perlstein

“[Rhodian delegation:] Every city contains wicked citizens from time to time and an ignorant populace all the time.”

— Livy

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed…

— Barry Ritholtz

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace…

— William Greider