Masses Quotes

The popular element feels but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element knows but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.

~ Antonio Gramsci

So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the masses. Do it by speaking to individuals. If what you have is truly amazing and unique and worth sharing, individuals will share it. It is always about the individual, no matter how big you get. Remember that.

~ Dan Pearce

There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

~ Agatha Christie

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The mob has many heads but no brains.

~ Thomas Fuller

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.

~ Edward De Bono

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Every crowd has a silver lining.

~ P. T. Barnum

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

~ Epicurus

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

~ Max Beerbohm

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

~ Bertrand Russell

Religion is the opium of the masses.

~ Karl Marx

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

~ Tom Robbins

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

~ Kerry Thornley

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

~ Philip Gibbs

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

~ Richard King

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

~ Vladimir Lenin