Multitude Quotes
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke
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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
George Bernard Shaw
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
Henry Ward Beecher
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When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all.
Michael Faraday
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The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.
Baruch Spinoza
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A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.
Johnny Depp
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Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?
Alexander the Great
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A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.
Napoleon Bonaparte
