legion quotes

And he asked him,What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 5:9.

   The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

-William Safire
  Of the so-called'silent majority'. Safire's New Political Dictionary.

It is not enough to refuse the Legion d'Honneur.One should never have deserved it.

- Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
Of Maurice Ravel, who had declined the honour. Quoted by Alister Kershaw in TheAustralian,1991.

   To begin with, I was born with an unreasonably large stock of relations, who have increased and multiplied ever since. My aunts and uncles were legion, and my cousins as the sands of the sea without number. Consequently, even a low death-rate meant, in the course of mere natural decay, a tolerably steady supply of funerals for a by no means affectionate but exceedingly clannish family to go to. Add to this that the town we lived in, being divided in religious opinion, buried its dead in two great cemeteries, each of which was held by the opposite faction to be the ante- chamber of perdition, and by its own patrons to be the gate of paradise.

- George Bernard Shaw
'Music in London'.

The cross of the Legion of Honour has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that distinction.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  ATramp Abroad, ch.8.