Thomas Carlyle on Society
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Thomas Carlyle, catalogued under society, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #32352: "The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble."
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #118597: "Has any man, or any society of men, a truth to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a publ…"
2 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle on Society
"The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble."
"Has any man, or any society of men, a truth to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery, they were hopeless, helpless."