Multitude Quotes

354 quotes by 286 authors

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed… — George V
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. — Paul Twitchell
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. — Peter Diamandis
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in… — Francis Galton
Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins. — Bob Dylan
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
Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... — William Butler Yeats
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us… — Ambrose Bierce
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. — Seneca the Younger
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. — Martial
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring… — William Shakespeare
What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,… — William Shakespeare
We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word… — Eric Hoffer
Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping… — Gloria Naylor
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is… — Edmund Burke
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who… — Joshua Reynolds
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and… — Polybius

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