#masse

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

— Lionel Barrymore

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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses. ↗

— Emma Bonino

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Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? ↗

— David R. Brower

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The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

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The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

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I wish the masses of people would all follow my advice, because I'd throw it off a cliff. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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