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• If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether.

  Neil Postman

  Taken, Hands, Political

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• Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

  David Mamet

  Art, Differences, Entertainment

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• Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

  Frederic Raphael

  Communication, Ethics, Arguing

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• So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

  Vinton Cerf

  Effort, Bears, Given

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• The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Live Life, Men, Quiet

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Communism, Pupils

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• The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Army, Discipline

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• I am alone with the masses.

  Mao Zedong

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• The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Revolution, Revolutionary War

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

  John Lahr

  Media, Delight, Notorious

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• It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

  Don Nickles

  Hate, Mass Destruction, America

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• It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

  Louis Sullivan

  Dream, Past, Self

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• The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

  Alvar Aalto

  Light, Views, Steel

  Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”

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• Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Effort, Purpose

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Compassion, Mind, Atheism

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• Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, People, Would Be

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• The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

  C. Wright Mills

  Way, Entertainment, Distraction

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• Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary... Humanity will, of course, change; human society will, of course, continue to develop - in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.

  Fidel Castro

  Attitude, Men, Errors

  Fidel Castro's speech at the closing of the first conference of OLAS in Havana’s Chaplin Theater, www.marxists.org. August 10, 1967.

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• Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Males, Essentials

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.

  Alberto Moravia

  Mean, Men, World

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• I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

  Derek Bok

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Democracy, Socialism, Democratic

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• He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

  Shang Yang

  Independent, Pride, Extraordinary Person

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• I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Personality, Funny Videos

  "Questions for Aziz Ansari" by Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. August 12, 2011.

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• In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

  Leland Stanford

  Unrest, May, Improvement

  Leland Stanford (1890). “Government Loans on Real Estate: Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, in the United States Senate, March 10, 1890”

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