Mass Quotes - Page 27

• politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

  Roseanne Barr

  United States, Pliers, Politics

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• ... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Availability, Style, Popcorn

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Rights, Class, Community

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ann Dexter Gordon (1997). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866”, p.410, Rutgers University Press

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• Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.

  Ruth Benedict

  Self, Civilization, People

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Fashion, Hot, Avant Garde

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• The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

  Susan Sontag

  Government, Borders, World

  "Why Are We in Kosovo?" by Susan Sontag, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 1999.

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• Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Discovery

  "Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage". Book by Marianne Williamson (Part I "Thoughts", Chapter 2 "The Luminous Mind", p. 29), November 1994.

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• The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

  Mary McCarthy

  Guilt, Yoke, Lambs

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.

  Mary McCarthy

  Tired, Men, Faces

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

  Jane Addams

  Moving, Men, Emotional

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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• His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

  Hannah Arendt

  Uprising, Political, Needs

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Faith, Believe, Men

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.228, Rowman Altamira

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• Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Support

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• It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Law, Class

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• One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Nsa, Division

  "Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks". www.rt.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Phones, Nsa

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• What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Technology, Mass Destruction, Waiting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, President, Lobbyists

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.

  Frank Iero

  Song, Gone, Snapshots

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• Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of people. And for those who find that they can't, all of sudden they leave the general mass, they find that they become exceptions, and exceptional, and often this makes them public.

  David Bezmozgis

  People, Kind, Exceptional

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Struggle, Ignorance, Blue

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• Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

  George Sand

  Ungrateful, Feelings, Ignorant

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

  Theodore Parker

  Dark, Men, Civilization

  Theodore Parker “The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”

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