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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

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Deception/Lying
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Georges Bernanos
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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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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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The multitude is always wrong. – Proverb

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

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