Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Your scorn for mediocrity blinds you to its vast primitive power. You stand in the glare of your own brilliance, unable to see into the dim corners of the room, to dilate your eyes and see the potenti...
The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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.
I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Every crowd has a silver lining.
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.
The mob has many heads but no brains.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
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.
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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
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!
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.
History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.