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The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses. ↗

— Emma Bonino

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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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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

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

— William E. Gladstone

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