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- And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
(Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.) - Alcuin (732 AD - 804 AD)
- Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant) - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC), Fragment
- The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
- Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951)
- Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
- James Bridie
- To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. - William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
- Pliny The Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
- It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
- Lord Acton
- Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
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