Masses Quotes

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.