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Masses 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…
- 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…
- War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- 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…
More Masses 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 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
- Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. — Frederic Bastiat
- Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire
- Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
- After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given… — Theodore Bikel
- The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless… — Conrad Black
- It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because… — Giordano Bruno
- War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the… — Smedley Butler