War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society and could be followed even if no law existed and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority but harmful to the masses of men and can be enforced on them only by terror.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses it's the cyanide.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

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.

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.

Politics begin where the masses are not where there are thousands but where there are millions that is where serious politics begin.

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion and not on the opinion of the masses.

The more that social democracy develops grows and becomes stronger the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies the leadership of their movement and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

To my utter despair I have discovered and discover every day anew that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

The American Dream coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Thus the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions for education is a way of living.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses never transform anything permanent all I ask is that the good things also have their place their refuge.

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.