Quotes About Masses

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul.

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy--common clay, if you like--eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people like you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others--the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Instead of being distressed by the huge moral discrepancy between the myth of Hollywood and its current reality, most of them only saw what already had been fixed in their minds. It was absolutely eerie and sent me right back to The Day of the Locust. The point that Nathanael West made, of course, is that the masses ultimately want to kill and devour, to cannibalize their celebrity gods.

Epoca maselor este de asemenea era omului izolat. Nu este deloc imposibil sa ii urmeze intr-o zi era manastirilor, a comunitatilor si a ordinelor.

8. Follow the herd instead of your head

Formalism was a language made for and by elites, a way through which art history would be recorded. It never aspired to be a way through which the masses might encounter and enjoy art.

You can devote your life to the vision that is in your heart---if you have courage to focus your energy there. Of course, there is a price to be paid. But there is always a price...But I think the highest price is paid by those who choose the safety of the masses and blend in, becoming a whiter shade of pale.

A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal.

Não se deve esperar da cultura de massas e, menos ainda, da sua versão capitalista de indústria cultural, o que ela não quer dar: lições de liberdade social e estímulos para a cons­trução de um mundo que não esteja atrelado ao dinheiro e ao status.

a cultura para massas surripia quanto pode da sensibilidade e da imaginação popu­lar para compensá-la com um lazer mínimo, entrecortado de imagens e slogans de propaganda.

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

I am not a full-time politician but a 'sanyasi' who took the path of politics to serve the masses.

Jayalalithaaji was not just a politician: she was the messiah of the masses.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

I've always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.

I don't make movies for the masses. My interest lies in portraying reality, and it gives me great satisfaction.

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.

My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.

The mainstream consumed our culture.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.