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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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What does the truth matter? Havent we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Deception/Lying
Author
Georges Bernanos
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Society
Author
Georges Bernanos
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Who are you to condemn anothers sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Sin
Author
Georges Bernanos
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Masses
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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Masses

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

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Masses

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

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Masses

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

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Masses

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The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen. – John Jay Chapman

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave. – John Arthorne

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