Mass Quotes - Page 31

• The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Delight, Bravo, Hideous

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Real, Commitment, Numbers

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• Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.

  Peter Singer

  People, Understanding, Feelings

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Play, Psychology

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.27, Routledge

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• From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Hydrogen Atom, Long, Atoms

  "Collisions of *3 Particles with Light Atoms. IV. An Anomalous Effect in Nitrogen," Philosophical Magazine, June 1919

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• However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

  Joe Slovo

  Enemy, Resistance, Violence

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• The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

  Charlie Pierce

  College, Deceit, Fundamentals

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• We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

  Trina

  Religious, School, Sunday

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• If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Europe, Iron

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• With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad, they wipe out some things and then 10 million years down the road we get new and interesting objects.But I tell you mass extinctions are really awful for folks caught in the midst of them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mass Extinction, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.

  Jack White

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, People, World

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

  Joseph Lowery

  Mass Destruction, America, People

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• Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here.

  Bill Nye

  Book, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 04, 2015.

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• Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

  Seth Godin

  Friday, Media, Black

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• Successful trading depends on the 3M`s - Mind, Method and Money. Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. Each trader needs to have a method for choosing specific stocks, options or futures as well as firm rules for pulling the trigger - deciding when to buy and sell. Money refers to how you manage your trading capital.

  Alexander Elder

  Successful, Space, Focus

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• As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Cost, Maintaining

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• Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

  Julian Assange

  Latin, People, Catholic

  "Julian Assange rails against surveillance on Today programme" by Mattew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2014.

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• Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

  Alan Watts

  People, Banking, Realizing

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• The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Witty, Media, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Independent, Rights, People

  Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

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• To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

  Noah Feldman

  School, Years, Trying

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• I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

  Drew Houston

  Thinking, Long, Matter

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• The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Differences, Desire

  Leon Trotsky (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.605, Haymarket Books

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• In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

  Paul Lafargue

  Rights, Numbers, Political

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