The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.
Emma GoldmanYes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power.
Emma GoldmanWhat a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
Emma Goldman