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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. -- Carl Jung
Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation. -- Richard Morris
Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly. -- Joseph Sobran
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. -- Albert Maltz
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect. -- Blaise Pascal
Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for. -- Kristen Stewart
Religion is the opium of the masses. -- Karl Marx
Learn from the masses, and then teach them. -- Mao Zedong
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. -- Vladimir Lenin
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. -- William E. Gladstone
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. -- Johannes Kepler
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. -- Therese Fowler
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. -- Irving Babbitt
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. -- Thomas Sowell
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. -- David Zinczenko
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. -- Vladimir Lenin
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. -- Hannah Arendt
There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses. -- Jose Mujica
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' -- Robin Williams
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. -- Malcolm X
I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. -- Leonard Susskind
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in. -- Rosa Parks
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. -- George Ripley
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. -- Ronald Fisher
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. -- Giordano Bruno
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' -- Kanye West
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. -- Peter Kropotkin
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption. -- Conrad Black
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. -- Aaron Patzer
They mislead the unwitting masses. -- Huang Huahua
[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals... -- Conrad Black
I did masses of opiates religiously. -- Carrie Fisher
I am alone with the masses. -- Mao Zedong
What the masses want are monuments. -- Jean Drapeau
I founded this school for the masses. -- Atiku Abubakar
Football is the ballet of the masses. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
Observe the masses and do the opposite -- James Caan
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. -- Charles Baudelaire
Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses -- Pope Julius II
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses -- Bruce LaBruce
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses. -- Maria Mitchell
Not mass production but production by the masses. -- E. F. Schumacher
A short reign does not spare the masses. -- Statius
I love to deliver orgasms to the masses! -- Tom DeLonge
It is people who are important, not the masses. -- Dorothy Day
Character alone will have real effect on the masses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound. -- Aulis Sallinen
Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute. -- Shobhaa Dé
The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. -- Vladimir Lenin
To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses. -- Socrates
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. -- Mao Zedong
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. -- Frederic Bastiat
Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer. -- James Cook
I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials. -- Zhu Rongji
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses. -- Ludwig von Mises
The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be. -- Robert D. Kaplan
We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes, -- Jack Tramiel
The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity. -- Kwame Nkrumah
The only thing I am better than masses is confusing them. -- M.F. Moonzajer
I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. -- Juliana Hatfield
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses. -- Heinrich Heine
I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care. -- Cass McCombs
To be a leader means to be able to move masses -- Adolf Hitler
Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people. -- Pol Pot
Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically. -- Pankaj Mishra
Don't worry about the masses. That's how you make a memorable moment. -- Miley Cyrus
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals. -- Don DeLillo
Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses. -- Jennifer Wyatt
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The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror. -- Joseph Goebbels
Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses. -- Adolf Hitler
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. -- Henry David Thoreau
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses. -- Aaron McGruder
If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it. -- Deng Xiaoping
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. -- Russell Baker
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. -- Tom Robbins
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. -- Emma Lazarus
Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average. -- Seth Godin
The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth. -- Ludwig von Mises
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual -- Carl Jung
the target of the masses is that which stands out of the masses -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual -- Carl Jung
The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals. -- Stokely Carmichael
I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things. -- Richard E. Byrd
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses! -- W.S. Gilbert
There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses -- Raymond Williams
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart. -- Nelson Algren
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses -- Karl Marx
We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses. -- Lewis Thomas
Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to. -- Arap yegon chitabkoret
Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales. -- Inara George
Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses. -- Michel Chossudovsky
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. -- Rosa Luxemburg
I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals. -- Ryan McGinley
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. -- Aldous Huxley
If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation. -- William Shakespeare
The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations. -- Pervez Musharraf
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. -- Alexander Calder
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses. -- Karl Radek
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. -- William Osler
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird. -- Seth Godin
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. -- Thomas Carlyle
True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means. -- Lal Bahadur Shastri
One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are. -- Adolf Hitler
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. -- Eric Hoffer
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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