Who said “The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it…”?

“None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.”

“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.”

“What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.”

“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”

“The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.”

“Good music is very close to primitive language.”

“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”

“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”

“The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”

“All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.”

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”