Multitude Quotes

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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. — Plato
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question… — Thomas Carlyle
In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because… — Ronald Blythe
When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test… — Nate Mendel
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man… — William Jennings Bryan
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words… — Sidney Lanier
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining… — Richard Owen
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome which… — Nesta Helen Webster
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked… — Ian Rankin
When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the… — Roberto Unger
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study… — Elihu Root
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we… — John Ray
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which… — Bernard de Mandeville
A multitude of books distracts the mind. — Socrates
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude,… — Charles Hodge
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever… — Giordano Bruno

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