Vox Populi Quotes

• I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

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  Bob Rae

  Thoughtful   Men   People  

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• Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

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  Alcuin

  Voice   People   Vox Populi  

  Letter 164 in 'Works' (1863) vol. 1, p. 438

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• The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

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  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Latin   Voice   People  

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• The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.

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  Jeff Sharlet

  Brother   Real   Essence  

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• 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.

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  Alcuin

  Voice   People   Vox Populi  

  800 Letter to Charlemagne.

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• 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.

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  Charles Darwin

  Eye   Voice   People  

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• 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.

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  Michael Eric Dyson

  America   Years   Hip Hop  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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