Georg Brandes Quote

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools


p. 20 - An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889)


The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, ...

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, ...

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, ...

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, ...