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Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot. — Erika Johansen

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace. — Frank Herbert

You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union. — Jeff Sharlet

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. — James Monroe

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay — Milton Friedman

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work — Sunday Adelaja

A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.] — Tacitus

There is buzz among the populace. — Michelle Knudsen

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt. — Charlemagne

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. — Livy

If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction. — DJ Shadow

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone. — Donalyn Miller

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace. — Irving Kristol

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace. — Saul Williams

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity. — Voltaire

Every tyranny imaginable is possible when prefaced by the notion that it is for the well-being of the populace. — Steven Erikson

The fickle populace always change with the prince. — Claudius Claudianus

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. — Edmund White

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself. — Phylicia Rashad

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace. — Janet Reno

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. — Andy Samberg

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck. — Monica Crowley

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. — James Madison

A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class. — Mark Pocan

(On belief in miracles) - The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. — Gerald F. Lieberman

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays) — William Cecil Dampier

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. — Homer

The sterner self of the Populace likes bawling, hustling, and smashing; the lighter self, beer. — Matthew Arnold

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content. — Madame De Stael

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. — Edmund Burke

Eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace; — Charles Dickens

They don't want an educated populace capable of critical thought, sitting around the kitchen table realizing how badly they're getting fucked! — George Carlin

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so ... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you. — Duke Of Wellington

Well, the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesn't give
out ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace. — John McAfee

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace? — Crooked I

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself. — Horace

[Rhodian delegation:]
Every city contains wicked citizens from time to time and an ignorant populace all the time. — Livy

Populace above, populace below! What are "poor" and "rich" ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. — Frank Herbert

The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The populace drags down the gods to their own level. — Ralph Waldo Emerson