“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.” -Lenin
“Under the label of Socialism…the masses are but fodder for the prosperity of a few individuals, the most worthless and polluted ones at that.” -Solzhenitsyn
“Print technology created the public. Electronic technology created the mass.” –McLuhan
“What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever-growing masses of our century.” -Arendt
“The future belongs to crowds.” -DeLillo
“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.” -Fanon
“Noisy festivals are a necessity. Idiots love noise, and the multitude are idiots.” -Napoleon
“The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.” -Durkheim
“Without a guiding organisation, the energy of the masses would dissipate like steam not enclosed in a piston-box. But nevertheless what moves things is not the piston or the box, but the steam.” -Trotsky
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