Populace Quotes
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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More Populace Quotes
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the Populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
1st duke of wellington— As quoted in Words on Wellington (1889), by Sir William Fraser, p. 163.
There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the Populace.
Irving Kristol— Quoted in Wilford, H: The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution, Manchester University Press, 1995
…had been its Greek Populace, the Turks massacred as many Greeks there as possible, to so1ve that ethnological problem by genocide, a term a later and more delicate…
— Clarence Pendleton Lee, Athenian Adventure: With Alarums & Excursions, p.110
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold— 1869 Culture and Anarchy, preface.
A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states.
— c.1737 Irene, act1, sc.1 (first produced1749).
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold— Preface (Culture and Anarchy (1869))
A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states.
samuel johnson— The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Act I, Sc. 1.
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the Populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.
tony benn— In New Politics (1970)
Better to be always in a minority of one with God — branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel — frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the Populace — or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," — in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"
william lloyd garrison— "Valedictory" (29 December 1865) in the last issue of The Liberator (1 January 1866).
All offices of the SD and the security police are to be informed that pogroms of the Populace against English and American terror-fliers were not to be interfered with; on the contrary, this hostile mood is to be fostered.
ernst kaltenbrunner— Quoted in "Tyranny on Trial: The Evidence at Nuremberg" by Whitney R. Harris - Law - 1954 - Page 235
When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate would not agree to this because Fabius Maximus was against it, he threatened to appeal to the people, for he knew full well how pleasing such projects are to the Populace.
— Book 1, Ch. 53 (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick)
In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the Populace.
albert speer— Quoted in "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" - Page 363 - by Albert Speer - National socialists - 1971
Trust not the Populace; the crowd is many-minded.
— Pseudo-Phocyl, 89.
The proverbial wisdom of the Populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.
— Proverbs, or the Manual of Wisdom. On the Title Page. Printed for Tabart & Co., London. (1804).
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the Populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
h. l. mencken— In Defense of Women (1918)
It is a truism, of course, that in “democratic” states the Populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.
revilo p. oliver— "Revised Historiography", Liberty Bell magazine (April 1980)
Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who enthusiastically advocate confiscatory taxation and government control of everything) realize that a Populace is much easier to herd, loot and dispose of if it has been stripped of its weapons. The naked fraud and transparent fascism of victim disarmament must be eradicated through the repeal of all gun laws at every level of government.
l. neil smith— "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet"
Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the Populace, but over the best of men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?
— Adam Weishaupt, "Greeting to the newly integrated illuminatos dirigentes", in Nachtrag von weitern Originalschriften vol. 2 (1787) p. 45
Trust not the Populace; the crowd is many-minded.
— Pseudo-Phocyl, 89.
The proverbial wisdom of the Populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.
— Proverbs, or the Manual of Wisdom. On the Title Page. Printed for Tabart & Co., London. (1804).
Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who enthusiastically advocate confiscatory taxation and government control of everything) realize that a Populace is much easier to herd, loot and dispose of if it has been stripped of its weapons. The naked fraud and transparent fascism of victim disarmament must be eradicated through the repeal of all gun laws at every level of government.
— L. Neil Smith, "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet," The Libertarian Enterprise, 18 October 2009[10]
...the Bush regime doesn't believe in funding education because if you fund education you will have a more educated Populace. If you have a more educated Populace, you will have critical thinking. If you have critical thinking, you cannot push this agenda that they have and you won't have as many people that are so willing to serve in the armed forces for Dick Cheney.
— Janeane Garofalo (2005) Majority Report, April 21, 2005 broadcast
It is a truism, of course, that in “democratic” states the Populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.
— "Revised Historiography", Liberty Bell magazine (April 1980)
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the Populace.
David Hume— Playfully ironic letter to Adam Smith regarding the positive reception of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"
