The problem with doing cutting edge research is that the masses think that you are nuts!
In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.
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
The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to.
History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
Every crowd has a silver lining.
I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses.
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows" but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
He said, 'You have to understand, I'm an academic. I'm not trained in dealing with masses of people. I found out through the school of hard knocks that it is better not to deal with masses of people....
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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