Mass Quotes - Page 38

• The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Chimpanzees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.450

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• ... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

  Rebecca West

  Happy, Laughter, Guarantees That

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).

  Kerry Thornley

  Fun, Media, America

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• I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Power, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Civil Disobedience: Resistance to Civil Government”, p.26, The Floating Press

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• All mass is interaction.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Interaction

  "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman". Book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Black

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• Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Hate, Men

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• Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

  Pope Francis

  Soccer, Country, Peace

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• Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

  Perry Brass

  Mass Culture, Realizing, Banality

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.27, Perry Brass

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• In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Fire, Battle

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Humanity, Substance, Inseparable

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• Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent
  of their bone mass.

  Ann Richards

  Osteoporosis, Body, Disease

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• For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause bigger than our persons, bigger than our organizations, and the cause is
  to ease the suffering of the masses of our people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Organization, People, Black

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• I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the
  impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Thinking, Impact

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• You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic
  level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Political

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• Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.

  Barry Commoner

  Meaningful, Believe, Lakes

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• I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Civilization, Roots

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• Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Loss, Animal, Race

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• I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

  Brittany Maynard

  Movement, Dignity, Critical

  "Brittany Maynard: A Tragedy, But Not a Controversy" by Margie Omero, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2014.

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• Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

  Homaro Cantu

  Cells, Perfect, Twelve

  "A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World". Interview with Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. December 30, 2008.

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• Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

  Giorgio Armani

  Luxury, Confusion, Exhibitionism

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Because of the cumbersome nature of filmmaking, it's only recently that it has become available to the masses, with digital equipment and laptop computers. You can now actually make a pretty serviceable movie for very little money by yourself.

  John Landis

  Littles, Laptops, Digital

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.

  Jason Gann

  People, Mind, Majority

  Source: collider.com

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• Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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