#masses

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#before #certain #during #eyes #knew

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#desert #dialogue #direction #essay #get

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

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every

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

— Frederic Bastiat

#masses #often #plundered

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

— Emma Bonino

#been #concerned #cultural #currents #great

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

#continents #deadly #drifting #edges #forward

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

#each #freedom #grazing #individual #left

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #book #books #cannot #devil

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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