#masses

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#did #education #elevation #emancipation #father

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#american dream #cheap #consumer #coupled #courtesy

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#before #certain #during #eyes #knew

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#art world #both #cater #elite #masses

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#desert #dialogue #direction #essay #get

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#after #could #few #given #masses

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

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