Quote by Georges Bernanos
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but r

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

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

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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

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

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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

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