Masses

The multitude is always wrong. – Proverb

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

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

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. – Michel De Certeau

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. – Epicurus

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. – Vaclav Havel

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. – Carl Gustav Jung

Minorities are individual or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified. – Jos

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the caf – Jos

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. – Friedrich von Schiller

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. – Henry David Thoreau

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction. – Harry S Truman

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arise strange and beautiful things. – W. J. Turner