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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. – Georges Bernanos

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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. – Georges Bernanos

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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

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

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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

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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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