War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society and could be followed even if no law existed and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority but harmful to the masses of men and can be enforced on them only by terror.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses it's the cyanide.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Politics begin where the masses are not where there are thousands but where there are millions that is where serious politics begin.