Swinish Multitude Quotes

It is not swinish to be happy unless one is happy in swinish ways. ~ Susan Stebbing

The multitude was a frothing octopus, pulsating anthropomorphically over the church steps. ~ Ondjaki

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. ~ Mae West

If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government. ~ John Adams

Louis had learned to be suspicious of the word educational. It covered, after all, a multitude of sins. ~ Paul Russell

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances. ~ Anthony Liccione

It enraged me. It was their confidence, maybe - their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope. ~ John Gardner

Its a poor mind that would think with the multitude, because it is multitude. Truth is not altered by the opinions of the vulgar, or by confirmations of the many ~ Giordano Bruno

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ~ Edmund Burke

Democritus[3] says: "One man means as much to me as a multitude, and a multitude only as much as one man." 11. ~ Seneca.

Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution. ~ Allan Bloom

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. ~ John Milton

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins. ~ Brent Weeks

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. ~ Blaise Pascal

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary. ~ Confucius

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members. ~ William Shakespeare

The first law of the multitude is conformity. Civilization is the mechanism of controlling and maintaining that multitude. The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny. ~ Steven Erikson

Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee. ~ Francis Quarles

Instances of delightfulness are always intrinsically beautiful, so to speak, and yet under the right circumstances they may be swinish as well, for what is humanly beautiful might, as it were, be too beautiful for human beings, for which reason people are glad to place beauty in proximity to pigpens, as one is no doubt justified in saying. ~ Robert Walser

Listening to the Gospel on Palm Sunday, it struck me that many people criticise Pontius Pilate for his role in the affair while letting the multitude go scot free. Pilate did what little he could to dissuade them from the extremely unpleasant course of action on which they were set, but the multitude kept shouting for a crucifixion. Pilate could not have done more without provoking a riot. The crucifixion when it happened was a victory for direct democracy against the effete, liberal paternalism of Pilate.
If I am right, and the crucifixion be seen as an early victory for the principle of direct democracy, then it must follow ... that good men should struggle to confound and frustrate the multitude whenever possible. ~ Auberon Waugh

Now, legal plunder may be exercised in an infinite multitude of ways. Hence come an infinite multitude of plans for organization; tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, free public education, right to work, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labor, gratuity of credit, etc., etc. And it is all these plans, taken as a whole, with what they have in common, legal plunder, that takes the name of socialism. ~ Frederic Bastiat

Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal. ~ Thomas Huxley

Make-up covers a multitude of sins. ~ Stephen King

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. ~ Aldous Huxley

This many-headed monster, Multitude. ~ Samuel Daniel

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. ~ Oswald Spengler

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. ~ Mark Twain

Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins. ~ Anonymous

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ~ Thomas Sowell

Those who do deeds sovereignly great are always sure of being served by somebody in the multitude. ~ Victor Hugo

Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. ~ Anonymous

Hot soapy water cures a multitude of ailments. Wine, the rest of them. ~ Genevieve Jack

A day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. ~ Markus Zusak

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders. ~ William Hazlitt

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. ~ Katie Cotugno

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few. ~ Ovid

A soft landing covers a multitude of sins. ~ Katherine Starbird

Promise creates a multitude of heartbreaks. ~ Darmie O-Lujon

Philosophy, as long as a drop of blood shall pulse in its world-subduing and absolutely free heart, will never grow tired of answering its adversaries with the cry of Epicurus:
"Not the man who denies the gods worshiped by the multitude, but he who affirms of the gods what the multitude believes about them, is truly impious"
Philosophy makes no secret of it. The confession of Prometheus:
"In simple words, I hate the pack of gods"
is its own confession, its own aphorism against all heavenly and earthly gods who do not acknowledge human self-consciousness as the highest divinity. ~ Karl Marx

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins. ~ Carolyn Wells

Charity creates a multitude of sins. ~ Oscar Wilde

Clothes hide a multitude of sins. ~ Charmaine T. Davis

A multitude of people and yet a solitude. ~ Charles Dickens

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Over the following two years Essie became an accomplished shop-lifter, her wide skirts capable of concealing a multitude of sins, ~ Neil Gaiman

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. ~ Herman Melville

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe. ~ Carl Sagan

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. ~ Lao-Tzu

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. ~ Blaise Pascal

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy. ~ Chrysippus

The multitude of people fail because they talk failure. ~ T. B. Joshua

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt. ~ Joseph Joubert

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. ~ Anthony Bourdain

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. ~ Rollo May

Liberty is always destroyed by the multitude, in the name of liberty. ~ Raphael Semmes

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily. ~ Dwight L. Moody

I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green. ~ Gardner Dickinson

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.] ~ Ovid

Success covers a multitude of blunders. ~ George Bernard Shaw

encounter a multitude of other agents. My keyboard, the words unfolding on the Microsoft Word interface, the books piled beside my computer, the flashing cursor, ~ Anonymous

It's been a great gig. In this roistering life there a multitude of partings and meetings-
I will look for you along the way- ~ Marina Endicott

Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts. ~ George Alexiou

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ~ Saul Bellow

proceeding to the multitude of Gods is twofold, one of which converts and the other moves the Gods to the providence of inferior natures, poetry alfo defcribes twofold fpeeches* of Jupiter to the God^. According to the firft of thefe, the one and whole demiurgus of the univerfe is reprefented as communicating aa unmingled purity to the multitude of the Gods, and imparting to them powers feparate from all divifion about the world. Hence he orders all the Gods to defift from the war and the contrariety of mundane affairs* But, according to the fecond of thefe fpeeches, he excites them to the providence of fubordinate natures, and permits their divided progreflions into the univerfe, that they may not only be contained in one demiurgic intelleft, which, as the poet fays. ~ Anonymous

May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency. ~ Folco Portinari

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons. ~ Johnny Depp

Starched shirts and suits fresh from the cleaners' went a long, long way toward hiding a multitude of sins. ~ Donna Tartt

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude. ~ John Ruskin

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. ~ John Henry Jowett

System, as the advanced economic sector which directly shapes a growing multitude of image-objects, the spectacle is the main production of present-day society. ~ Guy Debord

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Human beings are not nature's favorites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. ~ Camille Paglia

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ~ Peter The Great

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins. ~ Voltaire

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~ Stephen Charnock

Given time, evolution is much more likely to provide us with a multitude of solutions than it is to give us one ideal form. ~ Thor Hanson

We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. ~ John Ashbery

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' ~ Peter Jackson

But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus in skeleton outline, bare of flesh? ~ Virginia Woolf

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation. ~ Isocrates

Hell had many interpretations. Syn knew that better than anyone. In his life, he'd managed to live through most of the common variations and discover a multitude of new ones. Why ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. ~ Voltaire

Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities. ~ Philip K. Dick

On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established. ~ Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Literature is the heart and the soul of a society. Like music it's the words expressing multitude of emotions, self riposte and gripping thoughts. ~ Shilpa Sandesh

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. ~ Sir Fulke Greville

True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice. ~ Ben Jonson

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude ... ~ William Butler Yeats

New ideas, fragile as spring flowers, easily bruised by the tread of the multitude, may yet be cherished by the solitary wanderer. ~ Fred Hoyle

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness. ~ Milan Kundera

We must therefore be guided by what is common to all. The Logos is common to all, yet the multitude lives as if each had his own intelligence. ~ Heraclitus

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Your attitude of gratitude will bring you altitude in business and multitude in blessings. ~ Farshad Asl

We enjoy not only the privilege of existence, but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. ~ Bill Bryson

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change. ~ Blaise Pascal

Riches cover a multitude of woes. ~ Menander

The strength of a nation is derived from the character, not from the wealth, nor from the multitude of its people. ~ Adam Ferguson