If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter. — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages. — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should… — Plato Copy Share Image
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now… — John Knox Copy Share Image
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices… — Rushworth Kidder Copy Share Image
How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today… What they have had within their grasp today they have… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella'… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image