It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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All this was inspired by the principle which is quite true in itself that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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All this was inspired by the principlewhich is quite true in itselfthat in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature
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I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
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Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty
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So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.
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The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both
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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities.. The so-called clergy stupefy the masses.. They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction
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Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses
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When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them
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I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.. The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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I don't want to know. I don't need it. I don't want the information that millions of people have. I don't want to be fed these boring facts and figures. Then you'll become one of the masses. I'd rather starve my mind a bit and have to search out nutrition in stranger places.
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Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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