58 Quotes About Mass

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true. . Criss Jami

Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere – is always right. Suzy Kassem

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering people freedom and thus condemning them to misery. The Church must correct the evil work of Christ by offering the miserable mass of humanity the gift they most desire and need: absolute submission. It must “vanquish freedom” so as “to make men happy” and provide the total “community of worship” that they avidly seek. In the modern secular age, this means worship of the state religion, which in the Western democracies incorporates the doctrine of submission to the masters of the system of public subsidy, private profit, called free enterprise. The people must be kept in ignorance, reduced to jingoist incantations, for their own good. And like the Grand Inquisitor, who employs the forces of miracle, mystery, and authority “to conquer and hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness” and to deny them the freedom of choice they so fear and despise, so the “cool observers” must create the “necessary illusions” and “emotionally potent oversimplifications” that keep the ignorant and stupid masses disciplined and content. Noam Chomsky

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus? Akilnathan Logeswaran

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning. Saul Bellow

When thinking is overrated And friends are easy to make, Check if it's too complicated Knowing yourself somehow... Inner peace's not hard to take, Never lost or underestimated. Get out of social media... NOW! Ana Claudia Antunes

The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in. Steven Magee

I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses. Steven Magee

As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch.. The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously molding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way. . George Orwell

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding in the subways under your feet. Crawling up in elevators through vertical cracks around you. Jolting past you in every bus. Your masters, Gail Wynand. There is a net - longer than the cables that coil through the walls of this city, larger than the mesh of pipes that carry water, gas and refuse - there is another hidden net around you; it is strapped to you, and the wires lead to every hand in the city. They jerked the wires and you moved. You were a ruler of men. You held a leash. A leash is only a rope with a noose at both ends. . Ayn Rand

When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light. Steven Magee

Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called "programming" -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow. Suzy Kassem

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told. Philip K. Dick

There was a time, when we were illiterate, insane and inhuman, and we needed religion to control the masses for the good or evil, but now we are in the time of the technological advancement, we are educated and we must let go off religion. M.F. Moonzajer

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses. Raymond Williams

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. Emma Goldman

The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises. Michael R. French

Its not the content nor context, rather, its the character that masses heed to. Arap Yegon Chitabkoret

It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again. Christina Engela

News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this. Steven Magee

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

As the wireless radiation industry continues to drastically increase the number of transmitters, electromagnetic researchers are documenting the range of new adverse health conditions that are emerging in the masses. Steven Magee

Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode. M.F. Moonzajer

Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses. Steven Magee

British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses. Unknown

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity. Steven Magee

The problem with doing cutting edge research is that the masses think that you are nuts! Steven Magee

Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints from the masses. Steven Magee

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Scott Westerfeld

The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying. Steven Magee

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

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

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