#masses

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#sexuality

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. ↗

— C.L.R. James

#history #masses #men

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#dine #fast #fast food #feed #food

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#development #leaders #masses #own #process

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation. ↗

— Richard Morris

#circulation #great #great masses #many #masses

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

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

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them. ↗

— Lionel Barrymore

#along #appeal #because #century #come

It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it! ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#great #great masses #i #masses #mississippi

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#i #i think #leaders #masses #past