„The [Soviet Union] bureaucracy not only has not disappeared, yielding its place to the masses, but has turned into an uncontrolled force dominating the masses.“

— Leon Trotsky
„The masses must be made to see that the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies are the only possible form of revolutionary government.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.“
— Heinrich Heine
„The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated from the masses and out of the masses.“
— Rosa Luxemburg
„Slavery to State and men has disappeared only to make room for slavery to things and Self, to one's own vices and idiotic social customs and ways. Rapid civilization, adapted to the needs of the higher and middle classes, has doomed by contrast to only greater wretchedness the starving masses.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
„Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination.“
— Michael Parenti