Top 146 Populace Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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

There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.

If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

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

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

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

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

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

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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

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.

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

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

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

What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

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

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

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

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

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

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

ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.

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

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

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.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

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

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

The fickle populace always change with the prince.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

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

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

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

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.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

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

I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

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

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.

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

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.