{"quotes":[{"text":"In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?","author":"Akilnathan Logeswaran","tags":["authenticity","circus","entertainment","inspiration","leader","leaders","leadership","lion","masses","performance","tiger","wolf"],"id":2197,"author_id":"Akilnathan+Logeswaran"},{"text":"Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.","author":"Richard King","tags":["art","masses","available "],"id":17516,"author_id":"Richard+King"},{"text":"The problem with doing cutting edge research is that the masses think that you are nuts!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["cutting","doing","edge","masses","nuts","problem","research","think"],"id":17557,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.","author":"Vladimir Lenin","tags":["serious","masses","where "],"id":25624,"author_id":"Vladimir+Lenin"},{"text":"Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.","author":"Philip K. Dick","tags":["believe","business","magic","masses"],"id":25915,"author_id":"Philip+K.+Dick"},{"text":"News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["broadcasting","delivers","emotionless","essential","government","job","masses","news","propaganda","reporter","requirement","television"],"id":26990,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["crowds","masses"],"id":45038,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering people freedom and thus condemning them to misery. The Church must correct the evil work of Christ by offering the miserable mass of humanity the gift they most desire and need: absolute submission. It must “vanquish freedom” so as “to make men happy” and provide the total “community of worship” that they avidly seek. In the modern secular age, this means worship of the state religion, which in the Western democracies incorporates the doctrine of submission to the masters of the system of public subsidy, private profit, called free enterprise. The people must be kept in ignorance, reduced to jingoist incantations, for their own good. And like the Grand Inquisitor, who employs the forces of miracle, mystery, and authority “to conquer and hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness” and to deny them the freedom of choice they so fear and despise, so the “cool observers” must create the “necessary illusions” and “emotionally potent oversimplifications” that keep the ignorant and stupid masses disciplined and content.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["church","democracy","elites","freedom","ignorance","illusions","masses","power","sociedty","submission"],"id":49853,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["act","action","crowd","crowds","crowds","ideas","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","masses","masses","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","produce-ideas","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":76170,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["act","action","crowd","crowds","crowds","ideas","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","masses","masses","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","produce-ideas","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":76170,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}