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"Religion is the opiate of the masses." »Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion."
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"The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses." »Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)
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"Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual." »Rune Leknes
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"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine." »William Osler
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"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." »Plato
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"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management." »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." »Adolph Hitler
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"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses." »Johann Kepler
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." »Indira Gandhi
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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty" »Emma Lazarus
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"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 Fenimore Cooper
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"War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent." »George Orwell, 1984
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"If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one." »Adolf Hitler
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"The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." »Giordano Bruno
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"With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason." »Lord Acton
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