#masses

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience. ↗

— Anwar Robinson

#any #anything #appeals #audience #broad

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#i #intimidate #intimidated #masses #never

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words. ↗

— Shakira

#before #care #conscious #fact #feel

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#enigma #i #masses #mystery #poet

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#arrange #believe #benefit #eager #easy

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#american dream #cheap #consumer #coupled #courtesy

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses. ↗

— Keith Haring

#artist #bourgeois #few #ignore #make

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#hearts #i #masses #never #really

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#any #appeal #broad #force #masses