Mass Quotes - Page 3

• I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

  Colin Greenwood

  Brother, Musical, Ends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

  Ann Druyan

  Military, Mass Destruction, World

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• Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

  Eric Hoffer

  Devil, Movement, Libertarian

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mean, Holy Eucharist, Catholic

  Alcuin Reid, Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Doubt, Favors

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• I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.

  Leonard of Port Maurice

  Believe, Catholic, Would Be

  St. Leonard of Port Maurice “Sacred Treasures of the Mass”, Lulu.com

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• What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

  Leonard of Port Maurice

  Catholic, Grace, Virtue

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• The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

  William Broad

  Stupidity, Missing, Majority

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• It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Truth, Views

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• So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

  Ellen Willis

  Art, Advertising, Mass Consumption

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

  Saint Augustine

  Vigor, May, Sin

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• Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Summer, Spring, Deportation

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• He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  Sandy Berger

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

  Tony Blair

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Doubt

  House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 406, col. 161, publications.parliament.uk. June 4, 2003.

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  Ulrich Beck

  Military, Media, Law

  "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Rocks, Sea, Mexico

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.27

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• It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Doctors, Humanity

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Mass Destruction, People, World

  "Questions surround WMD hunt" by David Ensor, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2003.

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• I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

  Don Ellis

  Levels, Compromise, Come Up

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• When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

  Matthew Sweet

  Japan, Play, People

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• The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Issues, Earth

  Erasmus Darwin (1791). “The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes”, p.9

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• If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

  Will Rogers

  Cheaper, Courses, Fellows

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Commercial Art, Stink

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