| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Cowley | Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. |
| Aeschylus | Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. |
| Alcuin | We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.] |
| Bible | The great unwashed. |
| Claudian | The fickle populace always change with the prince. |
| Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus | It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. |
| Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus | Classes and masses. |
| Hesiod | No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. |
| Samuel Daniel | This many-headed monster, Multitude. |
| Samuel Daniel | The key of the fields . |
| Thomas Chalmers | The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby. |
| Thomas Chalmers | The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? |
| Wentworth Dillon | The multitude is always in the wrong. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. |
| Edmund Burke | The individual is foolish, the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation, but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right. |
| Edmund Burke | The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. |
| Francis Bacon | The voice of the people has about it something divine, for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? |
| John Dryden | For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgment always true, The most may err as grossly as the few. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live. |
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