"Every one in a crowd has the power……" — William Hazlitt

"Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination."

— William Hazlitt

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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

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More Crowd Quotes

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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to… — Rowan Atkinson
Never follow the crowd. — Bernard Baruch
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. — Sarah Bernhardt
I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with… — Justin Bieber
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his… — Buffalo Bill
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take… — Larry Bird
I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap… — Emily Blunt
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. — Edward de Bono
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a… — Chris Brown
I draw from the crowd a lot. — Kobe Bryant

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