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Jos?? Ortega y Gasset
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Minorities are individual or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified.
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Rune Leknes
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Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.
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Dag Hammarskjld
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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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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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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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Johann Kepler
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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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Emma Lazarus
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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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James Fenimore Cooper
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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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Jonathan Kozol
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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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Jos?? Ortega y Gasset
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Minorities are individual or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified.
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Emma Lazarus
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Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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Giordano Bruno
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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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Lord Acton
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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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Religion is the opiate of the masses.
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Religion ... is the opium of the masses.
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The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
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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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War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
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The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
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"Noveau post-modern comedy for the masses." - The Simpsons
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"It's temporarily accepted by the masses, so it's the truth!" - Earl
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All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
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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 t
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