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Mass Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
- 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…
- What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition…
- Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
- I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten,…
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