(95 quotes found)
“The multitude is always in the wrong”
Wentworth Dillon
“Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.”
Charles Mackay
“And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.”
Bible
“Ours is a big country and we are a people possessing a multitude of different origins. If composers will increasingly strive to perfect themselves in the art of music and will follow only paths of expression that would seem to take them the true way, the matter of a national school will take care of itself.”
Walter Piston
“And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.”
“From oneness, He has brought forth the countless multitudes. O Nanak, they shall merge into the One once again.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Whether this is a set of long, [three mile] cracks, or a multitude of much smaller ones isn't obvious to me. My hunch is therefore: one big one, followed by lots and lots of ongoing smaller ones.”
Steve Schwartz
“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 favourable hearers.”
Richard Hooker
“The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: / Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.”
“does not provide nearly enough resources to respond adequately to the multitude of threats we face around the globe.”
Patrick Leahy
