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Quotes About Masses

'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
~ M.I.A.
In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
~ Narendra Modi
Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.
~ Anthea Butler
The reason that I started the Black Futures Lab is because I have some clarity about what I think needs to happen in relationship to electoral organizing. It's not a destination. It is a set of tools that we use to engage people that we care about, en masse, around issues that are important to us.
~ Alicia Garza
You will see nowadays TV's Top 20 and Radio's Top 20 tend to be the same. And then there are films that never reach to mass audience, and because of that, their soundtrack also dies a silent death.
~ Shankar Mahadevan
Neutrino masses aren't completely understood as yet, so let's pretend that they don't interact with the Higgs, although the jury is still out.)
~ Sean Carroll
One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Mass assemblies are quite incapable of independent action. Decisions that influence the course of history arise out of the individual experiences of thousands or millions of individuals.
~ Sebastian Haffner
If my experience of Germany has taught me anything, it is this: Rathenau and Hitler are the two men who excited the imagination of the German masses to the utmost; the one by his ineffable culture, the other by his ineffable vileness.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Este o veche frica fata de mul?ime, mai ales când emana frica ?i ca atare reac?iile ii devin imprevizibile.
~ Serge Brussolo
Since they believed that this revolutionary transformation was in the long-term interests of the people, they were willing to force it through, even when, as with collectivization, a majority of the relevant population clearly opposed it. They explained popular resistance as a result of the backwardness, prejudices, and fears of the unenlightened masses.
~ Sheila Fitzpatrick
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
~ Le Corbusier
Architects are servants, not leaders. They are not to assert their little egos, but to express the soul of their country and the rhythm of their time. They are not to follow the delusions of their personal fancy, but to seek the common denominator, which will bring their work close to the heart of the masses. Architects -ah, my friends, theirs is not to reason why. Theirs is not to command, but to be commanded.
~ Ayn Rand
Bernays was one of the first masters of modern mass psychology. He liked to describe himself as the "father of public relations," and no one disagreed. His specialty was what he called "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses.
~ Stephen Kinzer
to raise the cultural level of the laboring masses and rear them in a socialist manner, promote a literature in the local languages, appoint local people who are most closely connected with the proletariat to the Soviet organizations and draw them into the work of administering the territory.
~ Stephen Kotkin
It is true that the world has changed, but in many ways it remains the same as seventy years ago. Hate still exists. Bigotry can be manipulated . The masses are gullible . - Schub
~ Steve Berry
Hate still exists. Bigotry can be manipulated. The masses are gullible.
~ Steve Berry
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
~ Steve Berry
No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?
~ Neal Boortz
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
~ Dweezil Zappa
In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported … Civilization is not "just here," it is not self-supporting.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
La rebelión sentimental de las masas, el odio a los mejores, la escasez de éstos: he ahí la razón verdadera del gran fracaso hispánico
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
A época das massas é a época do colossal.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Minorities are individuals or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset