Masses Quotes
610 Masses quotes by 430 unique authors
-
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are…
— Allan Bloom
-
This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling…
— Patrick deWitt
-
In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated…
— Adam Young
-
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from…
— Michael Palin
-
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these…
— Honore de Balzac
-
I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.
— Neil Gaiman
-
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again…
— George Eliot
-
...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your…
— Neal Shusterman
-
I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with…
— Jeanette Winterson
-
Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual
— Carl Jung
-
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to…
— E L Doctorow
-
Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable…
— Mark Levin
-
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
-
I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It…
— Emily Giffin
-
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are…
— Albert Einstein
-
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon…
— Leon Trotsky
-
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of…
— Vladimir Lenin
-
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated…
— Theodor Adorno
-
Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being…
— Janeane Garofalo
Who Wrote These Masses Quotes
430 authors contributed a total of 610 Masses Quotes, led by these top contributors: