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.
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.
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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.
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.
In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries the aristocracy, of idols the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy it can only worship the national idols.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.
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.
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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