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Quotes About Masses

We have forgotten that courage is a choice and that permission to move forward with boldness is never given by fearful masses
~ Bernard Cornwell
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
~ Bertrand Russell
Judas means to have his revolution, Ana. If Jesus doesn't bring it about peaceably, Judas means to ignite it by force. The surest way to incite the masses is for the Romans to execute their Messiah.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
the Temple guard will most certainly arrest him. Jesus continues to believe God's kingdom can come without swords. But I am both a Cynic and a Zealot. I only know we cannot let this moment pass. If it is necessary, I will do what I must this Passover to ensure the masses rise up and overthrow the Romans at last. The sacrifice of one for many.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The connoisseur of Camp has found more ingenious pleasures. Not in Latin poetry and rare wines and velvet jackets, but in the coarsest, commonest pleasures, in the arts of the masses.
~ Susan Sontag
Recientemente la fotografía se ha transformado en una diversión casi tan cultivada como el sexo y el baile, lo cual significa que la fotografía, como toda forma artística de masas, no es cultivada como tal por la mayoría. Es sobre todo un rito social, una protección contra la ansiedad y un instrumento de poder.
~ Susan Sontag
Elites presuppose masses.
~ Susan Sontag
As long as art is understood and valued as an "absolute" activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses. So far as the best art defines itself by essentially "priestly" aims, it presupposes and confirms the existence of a relatively passive, never fully initiated, voyeuristic laity which is regularly convoked to watch, listen, read, or hear — and then sent away.
~ Susan Sontag
Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and an object of surveillance (for rulers).
~ Susan Sontag
A fotografia, mais recentemente, transformou-se num divertimento tão praticado como o sexo e a dança, o que significa que, como todas as formas de arte de massas, a fotografia não é praticada pela maioria das pessoas como arte. É sobretudo um rito social, uma defesa contra a ansiedade e um instrumento de poder.
~ Susan Sontag
Oppose Conspiracism: Translate our analysis into the popular language of the masses when engaging in dialogue, work with the masses directly and openly, build ties to the localities in which one operates.
~ Joseph Stalin
Oppose Academicism: Reassure ourselves of the revolutionary, popular character of Marxism-Leninism, engage the masses in a revolutionary education that allows the understanding of Marxism, emphasizethe importance of praxis rather than isolated theory or practice.
~ Joseph Stalin
A political army is not like a military army. A military command begins a war with an army ready to hand, whereas the Party has to create its army in the course of the struggle itself, in the course of class conflicts, as the masses themselves become convinced through their own experience that the slogans of the Party, the policy of the Party, are right.
~ Joseph Stalin
On the other hand, to conduct oneself secretly when the conditions do not call for it, to avoid working with the non-communist masses and therefore refrain from taking a leading role in political work, to operate as an isolated clandestine organization and refuse to see the masses as the motive force of history.
~ Joseph Stalin
Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses.
~ Joshua Ferris
Anytime anyone complains about wrestling, it's so annoying to me because people come off as these entitled infants. Because in reality, wrestling hurts so bad. And then we're hurting ourselves to entertain the masses.
~ Xavier Woods
If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like 'Mad Men,' I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don't know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.
~ Emily V. Gordon
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
~ Elle Macpherson
La desesperanza y la soledad no se comparten en la literatura con una multitud de otros seres, porque no existe, no existirá, el personaje masivo
~ Fernando Del Paso
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Desgraciadas, tres veces desgraciadas las naciones en las cuales sea este último pensamiento el que predomine en las masas en el momento en que a su vez se apoderen de la facultad de legislar!
~ Frederic Bastiat
no podía dejar de pensar en aquella frase de Adolf Hitler: «Si desea la simpatía de las masas, tiene que decirles las cosas más estúpidas y crudas.» Ese desprecio,
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Though the masses may stare at the man who does violence to all his natural instincts, under the name of piety, and rends his flesh to prove the strength of his will, they will never be induced to follow his example.
~ blackie john stuart iii
The bad News is that everyone is a potential victim but the good news is that everyone is a potential solution, sensitise the masses to sanitize keep distance and quarantine - Bobi Wine on Corona Virus
~ Bobi Wine