The mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.


Chapter XIII: The Greatest Danger, The State - The Revolt of the Masses (1929)

José Ortega y Gasset Quotes

The mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own....

The mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own....

The mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own....

The mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own....