Multitude Quotes

354 quotes by 281 authors

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude.… — Thomas Paine
A multitude of people and yet solitude. — Charles Dickens
I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze… — Charles Dickens
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter… — Barbara Kingsolver
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude. — Carl Sagan
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,… — William Shakespeare
True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father… — Francois Fenelon
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. — Frederick Douglass
A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and… — Noah Webster
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance.… — Albert Pike
Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white… — Ford Madox Ford
I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready… — Dan Abnett
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. — Anthony Bourdain
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness. — Milan Kundera
Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That… — Samuel Johnson
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the… — George Eliot
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion… — William Stanley Jevons
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. — James Russell Lowell
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary… — James F. Cooper
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. — George Washington

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