"[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State."
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
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153 Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
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