Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archivingrevival effort ever.
To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
The masses of Negroes. . . particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit.
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
The people are drugged with religion; and that's why the elites - who understand that it is just a ritual, and understand the truth of it but won't teach the truth of it to awaken the masses of the people: so, the leaders live in luxury at the expense of the weak, at the expense of the poor.
I founded this school for the masses.
The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.
You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.
Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses.
There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.
Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.
Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1. 6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.
The masses are always wrong. . . Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
