“ The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture. ”
- George Grosz- Copy
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“ I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such. ”
- Nicolas Cage- Copy
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“ The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. ”
- Joseph Wood Krutch- Copy
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“ None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
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“ We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much. ”
- Robert Bianco- Copy
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“ The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ Old England liberty — to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress. ”
- Captain J. G. Stedman- Copy
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“ Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. ”
- Gerald F. Lieberman- Copy
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“ A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. ”
- Titus Livius- Copy
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“ The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts — the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria — are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
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