Masses

Famous quotes containing the word masses:

“When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

“The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

“A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)