Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or masses:
“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasnt yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“Thats how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)