Quotes About Populi

#1. Salus populi suprema lex esto. Let the good (or safety) of the people be the supreme (or highest) law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. 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

#3. Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

Michael Eric Dyson

#4. Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

Edmund Morgan

#5. Text of Sermon when Edward III ascended the throne, 1 Feb. 1327. Walsingham Vox Populi, vox Dei. The voice of the people, the voice of God.

Walter Reynolds

#6. When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

Charles Darwin

#7. Salus populi suprema est lex [the good of the people is the chief law].

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate

Alan Dean Foster

#9. I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.

Hod Lipson

#11. Multitasking makes you stupid - dumber than getting stoned.

Brigid Schulte

#12. A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Thomas Reed

#13. Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Nichiren

#14. The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

E.W. Howe

#15. -I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy

William Golding

#16. The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Alexandra Paul

#17. Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

Lindsey Buckingham

#18. I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.

Brie Larson

#19. There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

Alexis De Tocqueville