20 Populace Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. H. L. Mencken

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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' Ramez Naam

Time Best Good Freedom Corruption Communication Ending Seen Politician Say Those Administrator Corrupt Online Economic Economic Growth Countries Over Governance Go Official Public Populace Growth Good Governance

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

People Become Degenerate Corrupt Only Exercising Sovereignty Incapable Ignorant Populace

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. Ben Carson

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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. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Good Hurt Book Before Nothing Down Pants Bad Him His Person Good Book Help Who Populace Appears

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Change World Change The World Way General Only Poets Populace Consciousness Raise

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. Adam Johnson

Character Change Dangerous Feelings Longing Think State Punished Hidden Entire Self Had True Spontaneity Revealing Were Personal Essential Human Human Actions Censored Whispering Acting Your Populace Actions Lest Growth Desire

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. Barry Ritholtz

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Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space. Dick Cavett

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'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few. Elizabeth Banks

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. F. Murray Abraham

Me People Superior Power Seems Implies Know Most Intellect Hugely Want Which Them Separates Populace Why Desire

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

Government Delude Participating Held Elections Populace Believing

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace. John McAfee

Fear Sometimes Paranoid Most Governments Turn Populace Thing Things

The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion - and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner. Mehdi Hasan

Religion Welfare Citizen Every State Colour Protect Welfare State Exist Exists Same Regardless Race Manner Should Populace Serve Universal Creed

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings. Seth Shostak

Science About Percent Only Ratings Factor Most Survivor Get American Tube Tunes Successful Show Populace Nova Series Twice

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others. Tony Campolo

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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. William Greider

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