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Quotes About Masses

Mais les dogmes bolcheviks et l'étatisme communiste ont constitué un obstacle fatal aux activités créatrices du peuple. La caractéristique fondamentale de la psychologie bolchevik était sa méfiance envers les masses.
~ Emma Goldman
One cannot escape the impression that the intellectual's most fundamental incompatibility is with the masses. He has managed to thrive in social orders dominated by kings, nobles, priests, and merchants, but not in societies suffused with the tastes and values of the masses.
~ Eric Hoffer
With the coming of automation it may eventually be possible for a ruling intelligentsia to operate a country's economy without the aid of the masses, and it is legitimate to speculate on what the intellectual may be tempted to do with the masses once they become superfluous.
~ Eric Hoffer
Jeden przesÄ…d wypiera drugi. KiedyÅ› ludzie wierzyli, bo ich do tego nakÅ'aniano. DziÅ› z tego samego powodu wÄ…tpiÄ…. W obydwu przypadkach wyobra?ajÄ… sobie, ?e myÅ›lÄ…, cho? tylko powtarzajÄ…, prze?uwajÄ… opinie, doktryny dla mas, przekonania, których by? mo?e by nie podzielali, gdyby siÄ™ zastanowili.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
On ne peut pas faire un art qui parle aux masses quand on n'a rien à leur dire, mais nous luttons ensemble, nous voulons faire une autre vie ensemble, et nous avons tout à nous dire.
~ Andre Malraux
Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope.
~ Robert Kennedy
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
~ Adam Braun
Provision of facilities to the masses is linked with the collection of taxes.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
One thing Republican leaders, regardless of whether they love us or they hate us, have got to understand is there's no way in hell there will ever be another Republican president without the active engagement of the Tea Party masses and support of the Tea Party masses.
~ Niger Innis
It has been observed that one common characteristic of "classical populism" in all its forms was the feeling that the "Russian state of bureaucratic absolutism has been the primordial enemy of the popular masses and their intrinsic communal-socialist tendencies."[
~ Robert C. Tucker
Does the mass give the leaders the program and its argumentation, or do the leaders give it to the mass?[163]
~ Robert C. Tucker
The men who have changed the universe have never gotten there by working on leaders, but rather by moving the masses. Working on leaders is the method of intrigue and only leads to secondary results. Working on the masses, however, is the stroke of genius that changes the face of the world. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 1769-1821
~ Robert Greene
That so many people can derive so much pleasure from such a revolting spectacle," he said to me when he returned home that night, "almost makes one doubt the very premise on which democracy is based." But he was pleased nevertheless that the masses now thought of him as a good sport, as well as "the Scholar" and "the Greek.
~ Robert Harris
I saw thousands of them. A sea of the dead that roared like an ocean! You would have heard them screaming toward you. It would have taken days to steer them away. Killing them? I don't think killing them would have been possible.
~ Robert Kirkman
Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Dabei ist es wahrscheinlich, dass wir großen Geschäftsleute dazu berufen sind, bei der nächsten Wendung der Geschichte die Führung der Massen zu übernehmen, ohne dass wir wissen, ob wir seelisch dazu imstande sein werden!
~ Robert Musil
That's the deal with pop stars; you're expected to share them with the masses. I hated the idea.
~ Laurie Lindeen
The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
~ Anaxagoras
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
Z.B: Hannah Arendt observó que el verdadero genio entre los seductores nazis era Himmler, que organizó a las masas en un sistema de dominación total, gracias a su (correcta!) suposición de que en su gran mayoría los hombres no son vampiros o sádicos, sino empleados y miembros de una familia.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
~ Alain de Botton
The media and the movies are showing you their desperation as they insist in presenting to the masses information that is completely negative and fear-based. Subject matter such as murder, death and betrayal, attacks and such that keep the consciousness focused on these matters, as opposed to portraying in the media images of hope and inspiration. But nevertheless, there are enough of those positive messages being broadcast at this time, that like a domino effect, they are no longer stoppable.
~ Dolores Cannon
The future belongs to crowds.
~ Don DeLillo
Isterijos ir baim?s apimti žmon?s seka paskui lozungus, nepriklausomai nuo to, kas ir kieno vardu juos skelbia, jei tik r?ksnys pažada masei prisiimti sunki? m?stymo našt? ir atsakomyb? už tai, ko ji bijo, bet negali išvengti.
~ Erich Maria Remarque