Multitudes Quotes

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If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter. — Amitav Ghosh
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the… — Charles Babbage
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
Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even… — John R. Rice
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in… — Friedrich Schiller
I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me.… — David Brainerd
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
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. — Plato
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
It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages. — Bill Willingham
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
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes 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

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