Multitudes Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

  Johnny Depp

  Sometimes, Demon, Feels

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• Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

  Peter Senge

  Optimistic, Errors, People

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• It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

  Adrian Rogers

  Hurt, Lying, Errors

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• It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

  Aristotle

  Law, Style, Purpose

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• In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Littles, Injury

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• The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained ... go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Numbers, Taxation

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• A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

  Thales

  Mind, Prudent, Proof

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stupid, Two, Support

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• We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
  [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

  Ovid

  Future, Two, Duos

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• All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Remedy, Objects, Possessed

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• Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

  Carolyn Wells

  Patriotism, Sin

  Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”

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• Happy those
  Who in the after-days shall live, when Time
  Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
  Taught wisdom to mankind!

  Robert Southey

  Wisdom, Years, Taught

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.8

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• Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Friends, Should, Boast

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• I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.

  David Wilkerson

  Silly, People, Dying

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• Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Fashion, Memories

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• Time is hastening on, and we
  What our fathers are shall be,--
  Shadow-shapes of memory!
  Joined to that vast multitude
  Where the great are but the good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Time, Memories, Father

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.174

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• Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Retirement, Looks, May

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.79

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• The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
  [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]

  Tacitus

  Views

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• When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Memories, Believe

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• For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Thinking, Our Actions

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.40

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• No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Men, Littles

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• Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
  The cry of an applauding multitude,
  Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields
  The living mass as if he were its soul!

  William C. Bryant

  Soul, Oratory, Cry

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Flood Of Years”

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• For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Wise, Strong

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• A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

  Joseph Addison

  Hands, Law, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.274

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