Top 100 Quotes About The Masses
#1. I suppose is very cathartic to do a show to the masses and you get to make magic in a manner that you can't do in regular life, but I suppose that self esteem effect is one of the most powerful.
Sinead O'Connor
#2. What I pray for is the spirit of humbleness, and, the spirit of me doing what God is asking me to do - not what I individually want to do. So, if I'm making a "politically incorrect" statement to the masses - this is what God put in me.
Warren Ballentine
#3. The idea had always struck Shader as bizarre: entrusting the governance of a country to the whims of an uneducated mob. No sense in it. No continuity. Not to mention that a canny would-be tyrant could easily hoodwink the masses into electing him. It was one small step from freedom to dictatorship.
D.P. Prior
#4. Their incredible determination creates the need for nonlinear thinking, combined with boundless energy. Champions also earn money in nonlinear ways. While the masses essentially trade their time for money, the great ones realize this is probably the worst way to acquire wealth. Using
Steve Siebold
#5. Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole ... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.
John Heartfield
#6. [I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.
Ulrike Meinhof
#7. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Vladimir Lenin
#8. The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
George Sand
#9. My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.
Shakira
#10. O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#11. Today the masses will be forced to understand that corporate companies provide opportunities for millions of people to have jobs.
Christopher Dines
#12. The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.
Mao Zedong
#13. I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johannes Kepler
#14. I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
Dweezil Zappa
#15. This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
Lionel Barrymore
#16. It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Steve Pavlina
#17. I love to deliver orgasms to the masses!
Tom DeLonge
#18. Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
#19. I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
Yves Behar
#20. The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities ... The so-called clergy stupefy the masses ... They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#22. Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg
#24. A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.
Martha Stewart
#26. The masses are always wrong - Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
Charles Bukowski
#27. The skinnier and more toned I got, the fatter I felt.
The more in shape I got, the more out of shape I felt like I was.
And the more I made myself look good to the masses, the less attractive I felt like I was.
Dan Pearce
#28. We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
Vladimir Lenin
#29. Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. Who are we as individuals to judge the masses?
--used recently in a debate
Nicola Black
#31. A short reign does not spare the masses.
Statius
#32. The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
Tariq Ali
#33. To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
Mikhail Bakunin
#34. 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
#35. A network marketing business is based upon the leaders pulling people up, while a traditional corporate or government business is based upon only promoting a few and keeping the masses of employees content with a steady paycheck.
Robert Kiyosaki
#37. In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . "The
John Le Carre
#38. It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove
of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This
event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released
upon the masses in 2012.
Phil Collen
#39. Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.
Felix O. Hartmann
#40. The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together.
M.F. Moonzajer
#41. There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.
Ludwig Von Mises
#42. Position, - for the Negro to realize more deeply than he does at present the need of uplifting the masses of his people, for the white people to realize more vividly than they have yet done the deadening and disastrous effect of a color-prejudice that classes Phillis Wheatley
W.E.B. Du Bois
#43. The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.
Ludwig Von Mises
#44. Although I wasn't there to bear witness, I imagine Lot's wife scanned the masses for her children. Perhaps she sought out the curves of their mouths and the shapes of their faces, trying to memorize her children, grown now. She looked back as I and any strong, loving mother would have done.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#46. [It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
Mao Zedong
#49. CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets.
T.F. Hodge
#50. The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
Kwame Nkrumah
#51. the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
Seth Godin
#53. It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.
Ludwig Von Mises
#54. The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.
Bernard Hopkins
#55. If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.
Malcolm X
#56. To stir the masses, to appeal to their higher, better selves, to set them thinking for themselves, and to hold ever before them the ideal of mutual kindness and good will, based upon mutual interests, is to render real service to the cause of humanity.
Eugene V. Debs
#57. I'm really grateful to Ryan Murphy for so much because he's fearless. He's so confident. He has a very unusual and unique way of seeing the world sometimes, and he's somehow able to translate that into entertainment for the masses, at the right time in pop culture.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#58. There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.
Kelis
#59. If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.
Deng Xiaoping
#60. Clearly, this is at bottom the same ancient lament that the masses seek distraction whereas art demands concentration from the spectator.
Walter Benjamin
#61. Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.
James D. Maxon
#62. Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses.
Margaret Aranda
#63. I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
Henrik Ibsen
#64. Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#65. Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
Eric Hoffer
#66. The sooner you decide that it is alright to believe the opposite of what the masses do, and that it is alright to trust the universe, and you choose to be happy rather than be right, the sooner you will be happy.
Malti Bhojwani
#67. One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
#68. Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military, nor the political, nor the commercial, that was predominant in the life of the individual and of the masses.
Stefan Zweig
#70. The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.
Milton Friedman
#71. In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
Karl Marx
#72. 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.
Irving Langmuir
#73. The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.
Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora
#74. Intentional misinformation of the masses by corporate governments is causing large numbers of easily preventable deaths.
Steven Magee
#75. See how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. Even when others don't understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses.
Jeff Goins
#79. We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#80. If you are a writer and you write/understand sarcasm please be thankful to the government and the masses.
Without their hard work and supreme idiotism it wouldn't have been possible.
You owe them the brutal sarcasm, they've earned it!
Himmilicious
#81. It is easy to climb the ladder of success if one is working on issues and aeas which are not frequented by the masses, provided one is ready to face challenges.
Vishwas Chavan
#82. The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools
Georg Brandes
#83. 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
#84. Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
Karl Radek
#85. After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
Theodore Bikel
#86. Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#87. It might sound cliched, but choosing the right script is crucial. I think 'Badmaash Company' was a very big break for me because it gave me a lot of appreciation from the masses. It made me more confident as an actor.
Vir Das
#88. Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses,
Ian Fleming
#90. To study the laws of history we must completely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements by which the masses are moved.
Leo Tolstoy
#91. Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.' ... what do you suppose that means?"
Television: " ... it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
Bill Watterson
#92. I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.
J.B. Priestley
#93. I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.
George Orwell
#94. For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause bigger than our persons, bigger than our organizations, and the cause is
to ease the suffering of the masses of our people.
Louis Farrakhan
#95. I write my music to minister to myself. I have enough sin and enough shortcomings and enough need in my own life that I don't need to write to evangelize to the "masses." But if someone else can hear my music and relate to it with the same need that I do, then I give God the glory for that.
Bob Carlisle
#96. It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.
Dean Koontz
#97. Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.
Aldous Huxley
#98. May I so boldly suggest that this Thanksgiving, we focus on one-on-one conversations, instead of broadcasting our lives to the masses.
Randi Zuckerberg
#99. The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
Ellen G. White
#100. 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
