Mass Quotes

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. (Johannes Kepler)
See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. View quote
George W. Bush
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. View quote
Hannah Arendt
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. View quote
William Osler
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. View quote
Russell Baker
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. View quote
Erich Fromm
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. View quote
Ernest Renan
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Giordano Bruno)
Principles You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction. View quote
Richard Feynman
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. View quote
Denis Diderot
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. View quote
Denis Diderot
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. it looks terrible but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people--not by one of two new types of weapon. View quote
Mao Zedong
[Iran, Libya and Syria] are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons [of] mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve. View quote
Ariel Sharon
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. View quote
Walt Disney
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. View quote
William Winwood Reade
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. (David Zinczenko)
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. View quote
Eugenio Montale
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. View quote
Christopher Lasch