Masses Quotes

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

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.

I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

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

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

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.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.