Adoration Quote by Ambrose Bierce

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

— Edmund Burke

“Its a poor mind that would think with the multitude, because it is multitude. Truth is not altered by the opinions of the vulgar,…

— Giordano Bruno

If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the…

— John Adams

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

— Blaise Pascal

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

— Fisher Ames

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

— Arthur Koestler

“Woe be to that nation, where the multitude is at liberty to follow their own inclinations!”

— Tobias Smollett

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for…

— Alexander Hamilton

“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the crimes of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and…

— Edward Gibbon

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

— Andy Warhol