Masses

Famous quotes containing the word masses:

    The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    If you’re born in America with a black skin, you’re born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.
    Malcolm X (1925–1965)

    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)