Quotes About Masses

Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

the reason why Gilgamesh needed the assent of his elders to defend his city was probably that he did not have at his disposal the writing tools necessary to command absolute political control over large numbers of citizens. By the same token, Uruk's literate, scribal elite was not yet able to disempower its illiterate masses.

The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

Influencers" succeed in a culture when the masses stop reading and thinking for themselves.

We have reached the point where multi-millions of people are taking to the streets around the world to protest at their economic plight as the gap between rich and poor becomes a chasm as (calculated) chaos in the financial system has been used as the (calculated) excuse for the biggest transfer of wealth from the many to the few, from poor to rich, from masses to elite, in known human history.

My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

Today Satan rules the world. The masses no longer believe in God. And, yes, Satan is in the Vatican.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.