#multitude

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. ↗

— Richard Hooker

#attentive #favorable #governed #hearers #multitude

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#almost #blunt #causes #combined #discriminating

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#am #caused #ever #express #harm

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #business #comfortable #competent #concerned

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. ↗

— Harry Browne

#association #choose #each #free #free market

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#ages #any #blindness #design #enlightened

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#art #believe #counsellors #every #human

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. ↗

— Paul Valery

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