Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Activist, Politician
"I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy."
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Mass
232 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Socrates
Philosopher
"If you want to be wrong then follow the masses."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual"
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude."
Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them."
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"Learn from the masses, and then teach them."
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"It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people."
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"The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed."
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"Strength without agility is a mere mass."
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"There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses"
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"This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it."
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"If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it."
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"Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence."
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"They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
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"Religion is the metaphysics of the masses."
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"Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product."
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"The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles."
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"[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed."
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"What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately."
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"There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea."
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"It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass."
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"The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts."
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"Take away the Mass, destroy the Church."
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"It is the Mass that matters."
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"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits."
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