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Masses Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
- We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as…
- You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.
- A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level…
- The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism…
- Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the…
- One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these…
- The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
- No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
- Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
- 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…
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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… — 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