Subject/people

Famous quotes containing the words subject and/or people:

“The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-quarters of Lisbon, the country’s wise men had found no more efficacious means of preventing total ruin than to give the people a fine auto-da-fé.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)