Multitude Quotes
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
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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.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.
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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?
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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.
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There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
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A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.
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Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
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Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
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When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.
