#masses

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? ↗

— David R. Brower

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I wish the masses of people would all follow my advice, because I'd throw it off a cliff. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cliff #cynical #funny #masses #funny

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

— William E. Gladstone

#back #classes #i #masses #over

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

#collective #masses #only #organizer #press

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

— Vladimir Lenin

#freedom #hungry #masses #political #political freedom

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

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

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

#democracy #destinies #determination #develops #direction

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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