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• One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.

  Dalai Lama

  Teacher, Buddhist, Leader

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Islam, Groups, Three

  "The Interview: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on reforming Islam". Interview with Brian Bethune, www.macleans.ca. April 13, 2015.

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• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Giving, Community

  'Strong Opinions' (1973) p. 33

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• I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am].

  Lee Daniels

  Mother, Father, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well spans my life as an appreciator - as somebody who's been involved with this mass cult of horror, from radio and movies and Saturday matinees and books. In the '40s there really wasn't that much. People don't want to read about horrible things in horrible times. So, in the '40s, there was Val Lutin with The Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People and there wasn't much else.

  Stephen King

  Book, Cat, People

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• When enough electrons within an atom get aligned and a critical mass is reached - as soon as you hit that hundredth monkey, as soon as you hit the one - you have phase transition, and all the rest of the electrons automatically make the change. My mission - what I teach and what I believe in - is that you just get yourself aligned with God-consciousness. If we teach enough people to do it - if enough of us ultimately get there - then we'll start electing leaders with this kind of consciousness. We'll start seeing kinds of shifts taking their place.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, People, Leader

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• I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.

  Philip Gourevitch

  War, Thinking, Europe

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.

  Mike White

  People, Drug, Quality

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Joy, Humanity, Desire

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Temptation, Might

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• I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.

  Mac Miller

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My concern is that the leaders who are presently responsible for guiding the masses and teaching the people in the church environment, as well as business and corporate, reconnect themselves to God's original idea and that is that God created man to have dominion over the earth.

  Myles Munroe

  Teaching, Men, Ideas

  Source: encomium.ng

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• I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Creating

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• Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Elephants, Impact, Worry

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• I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Humanity, Doe

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• Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Selfless, Selfless Service, Ahimsa

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Might, Imperfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Legs, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Sake, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, May, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dumb, Salt, India

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• Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Sin, Shame

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

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• Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Class, Moral

  Shapurji Saklatvala, Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Is India Different?: The Class Struggle in India : Correspondence on the Indian Labour Movement and Modern Conditions”

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• Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Mad, Insane

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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