The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion and not on the opinion of the masses.
The more that social democracy develops grows and becomes stronger the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies the leadership of their movement and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
To my utter despair I have discovered and discover every day anew that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
The American Dream coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
Thus the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.