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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design. — John Ruskin

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough. — Diogenes Laertius

The privileged, we'll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines. — Cathy O'Neil

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. — Arthur Schopenhauer

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound. — Aulis Sallinen

The problem with doing cutting edge research is that the masses think that you are nuts! — Steven Magee

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated? — Neal Boortz

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife — Confucius

A managerial society is a society ruled by technocrats who make decisions on behalf of the masses. It — Jason Stanley

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

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

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses. — Socrates

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in. — Steven Magee

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do. — Kevin Rose

Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute. — Shobhaa De

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. — Emma Lazarus

We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes, — Jack Tramiel

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

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses — Karl Marx

Fascism of the masses is nothing but disillusioned radicalism plus nationalistic philistinism — Wilhelm Reich

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses. — Seth Godin

Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism, — John Green

If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must work towards spreading education among the masses. — Abhijit Naskar

The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master! — Adolf Hitler

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation. — William Shakespeare

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

Advanced rivals. Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in — George Orwell

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus? — Akilnathan Logeswaran

I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface. — John Ruskin

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

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. — Rosa Luxemburg

Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses. — William Gibson

Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state. — Theodor W. Adorno

we're all in the business of selling ideas to the masses, and we all think our ideas are the ones to save the world, — Oliver Bowden

The tragic brilliance of politics and control is found in the ability to get the masses arguing over which poison they should drink. — Steve Maraboli

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder? — Mahatma Gandhi

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all. — Ann Leckie

Philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion is opium for the masses — Nikos Kazantzakis

Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses. — Amit Abraham

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

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different. — Ludwig Von Mises

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired. — Louis Farrakhan

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. — Karl Marx

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. — Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more. — Mahatma Gandhi

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses. — Lewis Thomas

Learn from the masses, and then teach them. — Mao Zedong

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses. — Mahatma Gandhi

The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise. — George R R Martin

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. — Alexander Calder

The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together. — M.F. Moonzajer

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses. — Raymond Williams

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. — Mao Zedong

Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses. — Meg Jay

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told. — Philip K. Dick

Even when others don't understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses. — Jeff Goins

Small changes among the masses, can have a massive impact across the world. — Dennis Nappi II

The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine. — C.D. Wright

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual — C. G. Jung

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity. — Steven Magee

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades. — Terry Eagleton

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs. — Thomas Bernhard

History furnishes scant evidence of the goodwill of the people. — Marty Rubin

In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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. — Michael Jackson

Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science! — Raheel Farooq

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses. — Albert Einstein

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. — Johannes Kepler

It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it's only to-day that one of them broke the news to us. — W. Somerset Maugham

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.' — Ronald Reagan

M is for Marx
And clashing of classes
And movement of masses
And massing of asses. — Cyril Connolly

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses. — John Nardizzi

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means. — Mahatma Gandhi

O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde? — Andrei Platonov

Anarchism or freedom is the aim, while the state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses, they have first to be enslaved. — Mikhail Bakunin

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. — Theodore Parker

Informality is the vice of the masses. — Eloisa James

Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed. — Fennel Hudson

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever. — Mao Zedong

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling. — Guillermo Del Toro

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation. — Richard Morris

The power of the Dark Side cannot be dispersed among the masses. It must be concentrated in the few who are worthy of the honor. — Drew Karpyshyn

The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses. — A.D. Posey

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses. — Heinrich Heine

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

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only ... One dark and one light place in every picture. — William Morris Hunt

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. — Paul Wellstone

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses. — Jean De La Bruyere

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. — Vladimir Lenin

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. — Thomas Carlyle

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

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically. — Pankaj Mishra