#masses

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#fringe #lunatic #masses #opium #organized

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#elections #fools #government #intelligence #masses

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#call #cnn #instead #leaders #lies

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician. ↗

— Kip Winger

#i #masses #musician #never #thought

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#create #i #masses #means #music

Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses. ↗

— Walter Duranty

#exile #families #fire #hot #into

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#because #believed #change #does #low

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

— Louis Farrakhan

#i #i think #leaders #masses #past

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#black #come #conscious #crimes #masses

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#freedom #includes #justice #masses #peace