Populace Quotes
67 quotes by 62 authors
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What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a…
— Tony Campolo
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's…
— Benjamin Carson
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace…
— Jeff Cooper
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically…
— L. Neil Smith
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The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.
— Janet Reno
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A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,…
— James Madison
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Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one…
— Arthur Eddington
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If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow…
— Arthur Carhart
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Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay
— Milton Friedman
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
— Edmund Burke
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To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.
— Monica Crowley
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy…
— John F. Kennedy
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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts…
— Edward Dahlberg
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An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is…
— Manohla Dargis
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