Multitude Quotes

354 quotes by 287 authors

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit… — Lucretia Mott
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of… — William Wordsworth
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a… — Frederic Bastiat
Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of… — Sonia Sotomayor
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. — Thomas Jefferson
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in… — John Dryden
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e., universal] church. It… — Ignatius of Antioch
Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. — Ignatius of Antioch
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics… — Carl Sagan
The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by… — Ernest Belfort Bax
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate… — Jean-Paul Marat
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations… — Andrew Jackson
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense… — Albert Einstein
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and… — Karl Jaspers
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. — Arthur Koestler
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army.… — Jean Paul
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. — Martin Luther
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including… — Noam Chomsky

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