Multitudes Quotes
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.
Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.394, Oxford University Press, USA
Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
John Henry Jowett (1910). “The School of Calvary”
Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.464, SCB Distributors
Speech on receiving the Nobel Prize, 1976
'Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity' (1593) bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 1
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик
"Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)
Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin
Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.47
Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.4, Oscar Wilde
"My Life and Work". Book by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, 1922.
George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.11
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.147, Penguin
Lucan (1722). “Lucan's Pharsalia”, p.252
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.98