Multitudes Quotes
403 quotes by 329 authors
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If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying…
— Emma Goldman
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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
— Denis Diderot
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's…
— Audrey Hepburn
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In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors,…
— Thomas Huxley
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
— Ben Jonson
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not…
— Immanuel Kant
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We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to…
— Matthew Modine
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As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds,…
— Dee Dee Myers
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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes…
— John Dos Passos
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My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead…
— Steve Prefontaine
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It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that…
— Jerry Saltz
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
— Haile Selassie
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Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of…
— Eliot Spitzer
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A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next…
— Lewis Thomas
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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