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“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”
― Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris, et autres aventures parisiennes
― Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris, et autres aventures parisiennes
“If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.”
― Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism
― Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism
“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Too much elite education renders a person unpractical. And tell you what? The highly educated people are further away from reality than the less educated ones. I would rather rely on the opinion of a less educated poor person who constantly deals with people, than an overly educated idiot who views this world only through an academic lens while sitting alone on his comfy couch.”
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice”
― Anthem
― Anthem
“It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.”
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“If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!”
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“The great man of the masses. It is easy to give the recipe for what the masses call a great man. By all means, supply them with something that they find very pleasant, or, first, put the idea into their heads that this or that would be very pleasant, and then give it to them. But on no account immediately: let it rather be won with great exertion, or let it seem so. The masses must have the impression that a mighty, indeed invincible, strength of will is present; at least it must be seen to be there. Everyone admires a strong will, because no one has it, and everyone tells himself that, if he had it, there would be no more limits for him and his egoism. Now, if it appears that this strong will is producing something very unpleasant for the masses, instead of listening to its own covetous desires, then everyone admires it all the more, and congratulates himself. For the rest, let him have all the characteristics of the masses: the less they are ashamed before him, the more popular he is. So, let him be violent, envious, exploitative, scheming, fawning, grovelling, puffed up, or, according to the circumstances, all of the above.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“There are two rules I have learned through experience: 1. The government engages in extensive corruption with the masses. 2. See rule #1.”
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“There are two things I have learned through experience: 1. The government engage in extensive corruption with the masses. 2. The police engage in extensive corruption with the masses.”
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“Majority may be authority but only for the damn majority.”
― Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew
― Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew
“Deification of an individual is the surest way to fossilisation of his ideas. That is how rigid ideologies emerge that leave no scope for interpretation and evolution. The text of today has the lethal possibility of becoming scripture of tomorrow once the people swallow the claim of its author to be a mere scribe of God.”
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“The masses sitting using computers daily has coincided with a health crisis in the population.”
― Pandemic Supplements
― Pandemic Supplements
“The police withholding public records that are requested is a form of fraud they engage in with the masses.”
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“There is no revolution without the people. Revolution is not achieved by firing rounds in the darkness of the night”
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“It was clear there was a controlled release of information to the masses by the state of Hawaii news media during the august 2023 Maui wildfires disaster.”
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“Ce n'étaient là que des abstractions, des chiffres, des statistiques, des informations. On ne peut souffrir pour un million d'êtres.”
― L'Ami retrouvé: Refonte
― L'Ami retrouvé: Refonte
“Whatever one says on the air is bound to be misunderstood; for people take from the heard or printed discourse that which they are predisposed to hear or read, not what is there- all that TV can do is to increase the number of misunderstanders by many thousandfold – and at the same time to increase the range of misunderstanding by providing no objective text to which the voluntarily ignorant can be made to refer.”
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“The really enlightened person has no desire to influence the masses. If they are influenced, that is another matter: 'The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections; the water has no mind to receive their image.”
― Silent Period
― Silent Period
“The COVID-19 lockdown and the Maui wildfire disaster both demonstrated that the USA government was using rental home owners as their new social security system for the masses!”
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“You cannot think of relatives, friends, neighbors, colleagues, acquaintances, as masses... Masses are other people.”
― Culture And Society 1780-1950
― Culture And Society 1780-1950
“Mulţimile, contrar indivizilor care le compun, nu au capacitatea unei judecăţi critice. Individul din cadrul unei mulţimi nu mai este el însuşi, ci un automat pe care propria sa voinţă nu-l mai poate dirija. În momentul în care face parte dintr-o mulţime, un individ, chiar dacă este o persoană foarte cultivată, îşi pierde capacitatea de a judeca critic şi se comportă în mod afectiv, având chiar manifestări primitive şi barbare. În consecinţă, judecăţile morale ale unei mase sunt independente de originea sau intelectul indivizilor care le compun.”
― The Psychology of Peoples (1898) [Leather Bound]
― The Psychology of Peoples (1898) [Leather Bound]
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