The-people Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their…

— Dave Champion

“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first time, the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If king needs to be treated by psychiatrist, then the people need replacements for both.”

— Toba Beta

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but…

— Charles Darwin

“We thought that replacing the singular, authoritative voice of the twentieth century newscaster with the digitally-enabled vox populi of the internet would forever change…

— Gordon White

“Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the Palestinian blend…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The false prophets belonged to the socially and religiously acceptable institution of “professional” prophets who responded to the needs of their time. They operated…

— Willem A. Vangemeren

“In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government…

— David Brooks

Text of Sermon when Edward III ascended the throne, 1 Feb. 1327. Walsingham Vox Populi, vox Dei. The voice of the people, the voice of God.

— Walter Reynolds

“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer…

— V

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became…

— Michael Eric Dyson