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Mass Quotes by George Orwell
- All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make…
- [What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny…
- A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of…
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
- As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more…
- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of…
- War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate…
- The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
- The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted…
- The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed…
- The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be…
More Mass Quotes
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — 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,… — Rowan Atkinson
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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