The knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.
It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!
The emancipation of the masses can become a reality only with the abolition of the competitive system of society.
To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!
The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.
As to what we call the masses and the common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
… the supporters of Bolshevism have been hammering it into the masses that dictatorship is a vital necessity for the defense of the so-called proletarian interests against the assaults of counter-revolution and for paving the way for Socialism. They have not advanced the cause of Socialism by this propaganda, but have merely smoothed the way for Fascism …
I believe the masses everywhere want peace.
The future belongs to crowds.
Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.
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.
Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.
