#masses

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

— Vladimir Lenin

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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

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Religion is the opium of the masses. ↗

— Karl Marx

#opium #religion

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#merely #opium #religion

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#cannot #commentator #i #into #made

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses. ↗

— Karl Radek

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Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#exploited #federation #fulfil #get #help

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound. ↗

— Aulis Sallinen

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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

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

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