Masses

(111 votes)   Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(111 votes)   What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.

Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(107 votes)   The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic

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(101 votes)   The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafT.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(98 votes)   The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(95 votes)   Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(89 votes)   Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(89 votes)   The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(88 votes)   This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(87 votes)   Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.

Mao Zedong
1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State

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(83 votes)   Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet

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(82 votes)   The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(77 votes)   The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(72 votes)   There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(68 votes)   If you see ninety-nine people running one way and three going the opposite, don't be too quick to join the majority.

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