Populace Quotes

67 Populace quotes by 61 unique authors

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become… — Rudolf Rocker
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. — Homer
They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite… — Paul Weyrich
Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote.… — Paul Weyrich
Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been outstanding ambassadors of… — Unknown Author
In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships… — Albert Speer
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. — Andy Samberg
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. — Unknown Author
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume
There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace. — Irving Kristol
With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the… — Bertrand Russell
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are… — George Washington
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned. — Edward Coke
Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself. — Phylicia Rashad
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from… — F. Murray Abraham
The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it’s necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of… — James Morcan
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself,… — Euripides
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. — Wilhelm Rontgen
The fickle populace always change with the prince. — Claudius Claudianus
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. — Matthew Arnold
In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an… — H. L. Mencken
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him.… — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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