• And 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.

  Original: Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

  Source: Epistle 127

  Alcuin of York
  English scholar, clergyman and poet
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. riotousness
2. madness
3. saying
4. always
5. since
6. crowd

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And 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. by : Alcuin of York

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