Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

The multitude is always wrong.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.