Quotes about masses

The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity it is the dirt that brings them together.

Important decisions that will affect a nation’s fate or humanity’s fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history they require a sound reason and a powerful logic and masses often do not have such characteristics!

The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows" but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.

The problem with doing cutting edge research is that the masses think that you are nuts!

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints from the masses.

So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the masses. Do it by speaking to individuals. If what you have is truly amazing and unique and worth sharing, individuals will share it. It is always about the individual, no matter how big you get. Remember that.

There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to.

It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.

News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode.

As the wireless radiation industry continues to drastically increase the number of transmitters, electromagnetic researchers are documenting the range of new adverse health conditions that are emerging in the masses.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses.

I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the upper one.

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.

There was a time, when we were illiterate, insane and inhuman, and we needed religion to control the masses for the good or evil, but now we are in the time of the technological advancement, we are educated and we must let go off religion.

The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in.

I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses.

The tragic brilliance of politics and control is found in the ability to get the masses arguing over which poison they should drink.

You follow voice of masses, Possibly you suppress your inner voice.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from sc

When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light.

As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch....The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously molding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influen

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding in the subways under your feet. Crawling up in elevators

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering people freedom and thus condemning them to misery. The Church must correct the evil work of Christ by offering the miserable mass of humanity the gift they most desire and need: absolute submission. It must “vanquish freedom” so as “to make men happy” and provide the total “community of worship” that they avidly seek. In the modern secular age, this means worship of the state religion, which in the

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

The biggest fear a corporate government has is that the masses will refuse to work.