Masses Quotes

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

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.

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.

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.