Mass Quotes - Page 19

• I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Shadow, Building

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.70

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• If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.

  Johannes Kepler

  Two, Space, Together

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Indifference, Mets

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Army, Faithful

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.168, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

  Lord Acton

  Politics, Politician, Crime

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.61, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Believe, Wine, Rome

  'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 2

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• Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, Needs, Weapons

  Fidel Castro's speech at the Conference on Foreign Debt in Latin America and the Caribbean, August 3, 1985.

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• The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Organization, Paris

  Letter to Philipp Van Patten, www.marxists.org. April 18, 1883.

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• All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.

  Stefan Zweig

  Horse, Eye, Epidemics

  "The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European". Book by Stefan Zweig, transl. by Marion Sonnenfeld, p. 10, 1942.

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• Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.

  A. J. Muste

  Fashion, Real, Struggle

  "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

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• To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.

  Oswald Spengler

  School, Mean, Leader

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• I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

  Hermann Goring

  Goering, Action, Murder

  Closing statement to the Nuremberg tribunal on August 31, 1946. "Witness to Nuremberg" by Richard Sonnenfeldt, p. 70, 2006.

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• So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind. If they can't imagine a green field, a blue sky or something of the sort, then they are out of their depth.

  Anton Webern

  Blue, Sky, Green Fields

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

  Harvey Dunn

  Simple, Light, Paint

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• In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.

  William Wegman

  Men, Self, Years

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• Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

  Jaron Lanier

  Acceptance, People, Volunteer

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• We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Compassion, Punishment

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• Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

  Chris Murray

  Dream, Discipline, Effort

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• The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Confused, Taken, Law

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

  George Eliot

  Violin, Kind, Fame

  George Eliot (1885). “Poems: Together with Brother Jacob and The Lifted Veil”

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• The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Truth, School

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• Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taste, Facts, Interest

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.57, Random House

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• Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Lying, Men

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• I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Done, World

  "I Am the People, the Mob" l. 1 (1916)

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• Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

  John Dewey

  Men, Medicine, Psychology

  The Public and Its Problems Ch. 5

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