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I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. ↗

— Richard Leakey

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

— Albert Maltz

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Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times. ↗

— Franz Marc

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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long. ↗

— Thomas Monaghan

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

— James F. Cooper

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