Masses Quotes
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To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.
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The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.
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In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.
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All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
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It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.
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The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.
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Being an individual and having your own opinion is a problem if you don’t flow with the masses. There’s ways to say things and ways to do things that are more appropriate for sure, though.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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I write my music to minister to myself. I have enough sin and enough shortcomings and enough need in my own life that I don't need to write to evangelize to the "masses." But if someone else can hear my music and relate to it with the same need that I do, then I give God the glory for that.
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The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.
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Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
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Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
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We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
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Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
