Masses Quotes

“Mass culture”

“Herd mentality”

“the exploited masses awaken.”

“Only the masses make history!”

“Just political power comes only from the organized masses.”

“To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.”

“Commoner”

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”

“It is only mass struggle that advances us and only when the masses advance do we advance.”

“This is age of the masses, who prostrate themselves before everything built on a massive scale.”

“Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.”

“Our modes of Education aim ... to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one.”

“The masses demand a fighting President, and that means you’ve got to offend somebody, because the way I see it, a strong offense is the best attack.”

“The majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display. [...] The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.”

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”

“The greater the industrial and political organization, the greater is the emphasis on the individual as a mere mass unit, and the smaller his importance as a single separate person.”

“Individuals of the contemporary generation are fearful of existence … only in great masses do they dare to live, and they cluster together en masse in order to feel that they amount to something.”

“The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: “Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.””

“The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.”

“Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.”