Multitudes Quotes

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The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. — Laozi
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn… — Samuel Johnson
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
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He… — Evelyn Underhill
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
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws… — Samuel Johnson
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
The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it,… — Frederick Lenz
The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is… — Shantideva
The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for… — Patrick Henry
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

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