#masses

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. ↗

— Russell Baker

#masses #opiate

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice ↗

— Ayn Rand

#groupthink #masses #men

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#free #got #hell #i #know

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethical #everywhere #great #increasingly #industrial

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#easily #fall #great #great masses #lie

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#genocide #guard #huddled #indian #indian tribes

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

— Frederic Bastiat

#masses #often #plundered

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

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

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

#been #book #books #cannot #devil