Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Judge
  • Audience
  • Decisions

• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Song
  • Best

• In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Running

• I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • America
  • Past

• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Human
  • Function
  • Exploration

• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Quality
  • Brain

• There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Something

• The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Thoughts

• So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Alone
  • Abuse

• We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I never wanted fame.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Fame

• Republicans who oppose Obamacare have a responsibility to show that they can do better - not return us to the days when insurance companies alone decided who to cover for what benefits at what price. Otherwise, they should move beyond the repeal fights of the past, accept Obamacare as the law of the land, and work with us to make real improvements.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Real
  • Past

• Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Simple

• My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Mother

• If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Ifs

• Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Movement

• No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • God
  • Alone

• I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Actors
  • Obsession
  • Eras

• In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

  

  Aristotle
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Rich

• If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Criticism
  • Leaders
  • Beliefs

• Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Leaders
  • Majority
  • Own Minds