Quotes About Plebs

#1. Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Now it was all over. Once it had done its job, the plebs had been bled white in the interests of public hygiene, while the jovial bourgeois lorded it over the country, putting his trust in the power of his money and the contagiousness of his stupidity.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#3. Rising up starkly over the snowy plain, and that the plebs were flocking out

Robert Harris

#4. No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

Alexander Cockburn

#5. 'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

Jools Holland

#6. Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn't lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological disciplinary disobedience and bring to the fore the existential experience of dwelling in the border. By

Walter D. Mignolo

#7. Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

Lord Randolph Churchill

#8. The way I dance is by writing.

Anne Lamott

#9. When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

Mark Hamill

#10. I don't want to be the devil's bitch!

Deyth Banger

#11. Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.

Jim Cantalupo

#12. I was already starting to understand that other people's admiration asked something of you. That you had to shape yourself around it.

Emma Cline

#13. I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.

Stephen R. Bissette

#14. Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

Bret Harte

#15. Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers

#16. Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

Anne Lamott