Masses Quotes

We are not the kind of people who, when the word "anarchism" is mentioned, turn away contemptuously and say with a supercilious wave of the hand: "Why waste time on that, it's not worth talking about!" We think that such cheap "criticism" is undignified and useless. Nor are we the kind of people who console themselves with the thought that the Anarchists "have no masses behind them and, therefore, are not so dangerous.

The masses must be made to see that the Soviets of Workers' Deputies are the only possible form of revolutionary government.

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

But if the matter was evenly disposed throughout an infinite space it could never convene into one mass; but some of it would convene into one mass and some into another, so as to make an infinite number of great masses, scattered at great distances from one another throughout all that infinite space.

In order to fulfil the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

As we find ourselves in jobless economies, societies in which small minorities consume while the masses starve, we find ourselves forced to rethink the rationale of our current globalization and to ponder the Gandhian alternative.

He stepped down from his comfortable life to join the masses on their level to seek equality with them. "I can't hope to bring about economic equality... I have to reduce myself to the level of the poorest of the poor."

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

That is what was known as the Populist Movement. The leaders of this movement began awakening the poor white masses and the former Negro slaves to the fact that they were being fleeced by the emerging Bourbon interests.

I wanted a participation song, something the fans could latch on to. It was aimed at the masses. I wanted to write something that everyone could sing along to, like a football chant. And at the same time, I thought it would be nice to have a winning song that's meant for everybody. It worked a treat.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

Musicians must be spokespeople for the oppressed masses.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.

The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the attention of the masses.

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dread.