Frederick Douglass
Social Reformer, Writer
"Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude."
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Multitudes
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Saul Bellow
Novelist
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."
Adam Smith
Philosopher, Economist
"We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it."
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it."
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"I am large, I contain multitudes"
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"A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced."
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"There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen."
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
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"Charity creates a multitude of sins."
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"I will build a car for the great multitude."
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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."
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"This many-headed monster, Multitude."
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"To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters."
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"A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered."
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"In solitude, be a multitude to thyself."
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"Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt."
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"The multitude is always in the wrong."
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"A multitude of people and yet solitude."
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"What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so."
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"Patriotism covers a multitude of sins."
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"I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things."
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"Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?"
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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 multitude of false churches accredits the true religion."
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