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

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