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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

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

— Vladimir Lenin

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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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