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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Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.
Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
People need to make their voices heard in an orderly fashion.
I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
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