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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
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
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
— Eric Hoffer
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."
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Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
— Arthur Henderson
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
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . "The
— John Le Carre
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
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
If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must work towards spreading education among the masses.
— Abhijit Naskar
The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
— Kwame Nkrumah
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
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
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
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
Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.
— Mao Zedong
Philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.
— William Shakespeare
Informality is the vice of the masses.
— Eloisa James
Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
— Mahatma Gandhi
With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
— Ludwig Von Mises
All government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.
— Emma Goldman
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
— Thomas Sowell
The masses have been ridiculing and criticizing referral marketers for over 50 years. Meanwhile; these highly trained, ferociously dedicated
— Steve Siebold
[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals ...
— Conrad Black
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
— Albert Maltz
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
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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
Religion is opium for the masses
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
— Mao Zedong
Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.
— Philip K. Dick
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
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science!
— Raheel Farooq
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
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
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
Even when others don't understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses.
— Jeff Goins
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
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
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
Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses.
— William Gibson
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
— Rosa Luxemburg
In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
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
Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
— Richard Morris
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
— Mao Zedong
Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
— Meg Jay
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
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
— Heinrich Heine
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
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