Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arise strange and beautiful things. – W. J. Turner

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