Quotes About Many

Don't cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions

Too many times, religion mothers crimes and wickedness.

Plato's justification of elite rule is set out in his famous Allegory of the Cave.11 It contrasts the unreality of the images by which the Many live and the true reality that only the Few can approximate.

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: 'I wonder which is my lucky star!

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.

I love a good cup of tea and you can never have too many mugs. Even better if it's homemade pottery, inspired by 'The Great Pottery Throw Down.'

The whole issue of corrections is something that came up a lot, no matter where we were. I think people would expect that would be a Milwaukee issue, but it's an issue across the state, and that ties to so many other things.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.

Failure. That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness...

Feeding troughs for the sheep there might be many in the fields, and they might or might not be presided over by servants of the true Shepherd, but the fold they were not!

Violence is the method by which the ruthless few can subdue the passive many. Nonviolence is the method by which the active many can overcome the ruthless few.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

One sees so many kinds of men, one finds about one the relics of so many philosophies, one is astonished to meet, still surviving, so many illusions.

securities at a time when many investors were shying away from them.

But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons who are worth considering, will think of these things truly as they happened.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau's famous words - 'a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time'.

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction, and many go that way.

The subjects that stir the heart are not so many, after all, and they do not change.

there had always been a God and a Devil—only men had been so mistaken about the shapes of their Devil—he was not single and big, he was many and smutty and small.