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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
[Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.] — Tacitus
There is buzz among the populace.
— Michelle Knudsen
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
(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
(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
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
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
[Rhodian delegation:]
Every city contains wicked citizens from time to time and an ignorant populace all the time. — Livy
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
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