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I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

—Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)

The art of the masses.

—Hall,J(oyce) C(lyde)

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

—Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

—Quine,Willard Van Orman

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow ye masses!

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels.

—Hepworth, Dame Barbara

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

—Osler, Sir William

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

—Carlyle,Thomas

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when everyact of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

—Reed,John

No one in this world, so far as I knowöand I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help meöhas ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

   Therearetwo ideas of government.Therearethose who believethat, if you will only legislatetomakethewell-to- do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislateto make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.

—Bryan,WilliamJennings

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

—Lazarus, Emma

Os guerreiros de ca¤   na‹  o buscam mavo¤  rticas damas para o enlace epitala"  mico; mas antes as preferem do¤  ceis e facilmente troca¤ v eis por pequeninas e vola¤  teis folhas de papel a que o vulgo chamara¤   dinheiroöo 'curriculum vitae'da Civiliza c° a‹  o. The warriors here do not seek out mettlesome women for epithalamic conjunction, but prefer them docile and willing to exchange with ease their favours for those small and deliquescent leaves of paper which the masses call moneyöthe curriculum vitae of Civilization.

—Andrade, Ma¤ r io de

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

—Vian, Boris

   Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

—Alcuin

A small, compact core, consisting of reliable, experienced and hardened workers, with responsible agents†connected byall therules of strict secrecy with the organisations of revolutionists, can, with the wide support of the masses and without an elaborate set of rules, perform all the functions of a trade union.

—Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov