populace
Noun
Meaning
The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the populace.
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.