Mass Quotes

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. — Hannah Arendt
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see… — Rowan Atkinson
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new… — Wystan Hugh Auden
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a… — Sri Aurobindo
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. — Irving Babbitt
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. — Russell Baker
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
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. — Frederic Bastiat
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire
For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. — Jello Biafra
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the… — Theodore Bikel
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,… — Conrad Black
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. — Tony Blair
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass. — Bono

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