Masses Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Masses

Please enjoy these Masses Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

Related topics: Inspirational Government Political Generosity Compassion Kindness

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
- Richard King

The gallery is generating work for the masses.
- Kim Weston

The general interest of the masses might take the place
of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
- Denis Diderot

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
- Charles Baudelaire

There will be masses available all day long.
Confession available all day long.
- Thomas Monaghan

Please sign-up for my free Daily Inspiration email. Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have never intimidated the masses...
I only intimidate corrupt officials.
- Zhu Rongji

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses,
the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
- Michael Stipe

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing
Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established,
since the masses are backing me.
- Bela Kun

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses.
Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
- Richard Leakey

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
- Maria Mitchell

A short reign does not spare the masses.
- Publius Papinius Statius

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
- William E. Gladstone

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement,
on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides,
has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
- Irving Babbitt

Religion is the opium of the masses.
- Karl Marx

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
- Aaron McGruder

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one
individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
- Mao Tse-Tung

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
- Aulis Sallinen

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

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think.
At the moment our superstitions are tucked away,
but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes,
black masses.
- Terence Fisher

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

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music.
It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to
be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
- Dweezil Zappa

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for
artificiality of the masses all over the world.
- Lionel Barrymore

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance
of power between elites and masses,
a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
- Paul Wellstone

The only power deserving the name is that of masses,
and of governments while they make themselves the organ
of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
- John Stuart Mill

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the
momentum of totalitarianism itself.
The masses have to be won by propaganda.
- Hannah Arendt

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate
the masses not to take medicine.
- William Osler

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism,
etc.
It seemed pointless to argue.
We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
- George Oppen

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the
masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope,
as much for thinking as for perception.
- Walter Benjamin

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
- Frederic Bastiat

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
- Russell Baker

I'm not fighting any causes.
I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses.
- Jackie Torrence

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

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more
radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
- Albert Maltz

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized
habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
- Edward Bernays

The broad masses of a population are more amenable
to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
- Adolf Hitler

It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.
- Jennifer Wyatt

The masses are in reality their own leaders,
dialectically creating their own development process.
- Rosa Luxemburg

If organized religion is the opium of the masses,
then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
- Kerry Thornley

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

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

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses.
It is about the egos of the elites.
- Thomas Sowell

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying,
'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.'
She's got a baseball bat and yelling,
'You want a piece of me?'
- Robin Williams

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent
man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
- Johann Kepler

Social democracy...
is only the advance guard of the proletariat,
a small piece of the total working masses;
blood from their blood,
and flesh from their flesh.
- Rosa Luxemburg

War is a way of shattering to pieces...
materials which might otherwise be used to make the
masses too comfortable and...
too intelligent.
- George Orwell

Must all of them and their families be physically abolished?
Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted
in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
- Walter Duranty

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle
for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
- Arthur Henderson

Life provides material for its agitation which makes
its general views comprehensible to the masses.
- Karl Radek

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating
the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
- H. L. Mencken

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

Even if I know I shall never change the masses,
never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that
the good things also have their place,
their refuge.
- Richard Wagner

The first duties of the physician is to educate the
masses not to take medicine.
- William Osler

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be
no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
- Georges Bernanos

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
- Vladimir Lenin

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

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world
and there is no reason for the existence of empires,
kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.
- Meir Kahane

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

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals,
so they remain soft instead.
The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders,
not the Muslim masses.
- Abu Bakar Bashir

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
- Stokely Carmichael

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

The masses are the decisive element,
they are the rock on which the final victory of the
revolution will be built.
- Rosa Luxemburg

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
- Mao Zedong

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation
of the masses through symbols may be the only quick
way of having a critical thing done.
- John Grierson

Politics begin where the masses are,
not where there are thousands,
but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
- Vladimir Lenin

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

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

When two elements combine and form more than one compound,
the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass
of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
- Humphry Davy

To my utter despair I have discovered,
and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses
no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
- Mikhail Bakunin

Thank you for visiting: Masses Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Masses.

Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

You can also search my large collection of Relationship Quotes and Sayings.

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie