Mass Quotes

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

I regret the fact that Saddam [Hussein] didn't have weapons of mass destruction that we thought. I don't regret removing him from power.

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

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

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

The mass media are class media.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.