“No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”— H. L. Mencken
“The rebellion of the masses is one of the facts which defines the present, and it is also one of the most threatening.”— José Ortega y Gasset
“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”— José Ortega y Gasset