“That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.” MenOpportunityGivenDemocracyPiecesHugePersonalityMassSupermarkets Book:What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim Source: What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim
“The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools” ThreePoorMaterialsPersonalityMassToolsCopiesThree ThingsGreat PersonFoilsGreat Personality Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition) Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)
“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.” MenWarUseCultureTermLevelsPovertyDangerPersonalityMassIntellectualStressTerrorEntertainmentMeaning Of LifeGrayMotivatedCynicalCensorshipProtectiveBourgeoisIndirectUtilitarianismMass Culture Author:Andrei Sakharov
“People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.” PeopleThinkingProblemPoliticalLeftSidesPolicyHugePersonalityConversationConflictMassAdultsPressesHungerSolveCriticalSignificantStakesStereotypeBoth SidesAisleCritical Mass Author:Hillary Clinton