What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have mor...e in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each in...dividual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that there are too many ...of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and ne...ed not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can ...surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »