"Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power."
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"Character alone will have real effect on the masses."
"Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses."
"Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely."
"I am alone with the masses."
"Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses."
"There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is."
"History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass."
"We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses."
"No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous."
"We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking."
"Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened."