Quotes About Masses

And yet, Burke might have countered, once the masses were fated by the laws of political economy to toil in misery, what else was the idea of equality but a cruel bait to goad mankind into self-destruction?

Love has been the opium of women, like religion by the masses. While we loved, men ruled.

Palaces are built on the people's bones. To tell the truth, the masses would be better off without kingdoms, which is why it takes a gifted ruler to tell just the right lies so they never realize it.

Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. 

Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates.

The toiling masses,' and all that. This country has no toiling masses, we have Dan at the diner and Verne in the mine and Jerry in the steel mill and Burdette at the filling station and so on. They don't toil, for Christ's sake, they do a day's work and then they go home and have a beer. You can't get them into a mass for anything. If there's a good ball game on TV they won't come out to see the president ride by.

The owners of factories are more concerned than other classes and interests in the intelligence of their laborers. When the latter are well-educated and the former are disposed to deal justly, controversies and strikes can never occur, nor can the minds of the masses be prejudiced by demagogues and controlled by temporary and factious considerations.

The Muslim League won 75 percent of the Muslim vote and all the Muslim seats in the constituent assembly. Only 15 percent of the population had the right to vote on the basis of literacy, property, income, and combatant status. It can be said with some certainty that literate, salaried, and propertied Muslims as well as those who had served in the British army supported the Muslim League. The views of the Muslim peasantry and illiterate masses were less clear.

Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses

Broadcast TV has a very classy but old-fashioned way of doing television. That's what it's always going to be. But you've still got to introduce young talent and ideas and shows to the masses. That's the way you build a bigger and younger audience, introducing younger writers, comics, TV shows to viewers.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

We must continue to educate the masses and encourage savings in Bitcoin to truly drain the kleptocratic swamp ruling our financial system.

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

An unfortunate side effect of education among the masses is lack of respect.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

The cinema began as an invention for entertaining the illiterate masses. Fifty years on, it's much the same.

Gehen Sie nicht gern ins Kino, Fermin? Im Vertrauen gesagt, mich lässt diese siebte Kunst völlig kalt. Meiner Meinung nach ist das nichts weiter als Nahrung zur Verdummung der verrohten Plebs, schlimmer als Fussball oder Stierkämpfe. Der Cinematograph ist entstanden als eine Erfindung zur Unterhaltung der analphabetischen Massen und fünfzig Jahren später hat sich daran nichts geändert.

The cinema began as an invention for entertaining masses.

Karl Marx: Religion is the opiate of the masses. Carrie Fisher: I did masses of opiates religiously.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Die meisten Menschen interessieren einen wirklich nicht, habe ich die ganze Zeit gedacht, fast alle, denen wir begegnen, interessieren uns nicht, sie haben uns nichts zu bieten als ihre Massenarmseligkeit und ihre Massendummheit und langweilen uns dadurch immer und überall und wir haben naturgemäß für sie nicht das geringste übrig.