quotes about Vox Populi

last updated: November 28, 2023

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.
-- Alcuin

Source : 800 Letter to Charlemagne.

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“Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.”
“Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!”
“Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.”
“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”

Source : "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630).Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote this in a discourse composed aboard the Arbella during its voyage to Massachusetts. See Bible 208
“In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.”
“War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.”
“The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.”
“The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.”
“We have some fast guys out there. It's always fun to compete with each other at practice in the outfield. It's going to be a fun year out there.”
“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”