Swinish Multitude Quotes

#1. Thou art translated into the kingdom of Christ, but thou art a great way from his court. That

William Gurnall

#2. Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

Ayn Rand

#3. I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.

Frederick Busch

#4. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

Margaret Stohl

#5. There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

Adrian Tomine

#6. The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

Cokie Roberts

#7. Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Edmund Burke

#8. First bathrooms, now cars. At least people are wearing their seat belts.

Donna Lynn Hope

#9. True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Iris Murdoch

#10. Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

Richard Gilman

#11. We end up putting so much attention onto our image that we remain in a continuous state of protecting or improving our image in order to control how others see us.

Adyashanti