Mass Quotes

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

I believe that we should stop the immigration, the mass immigration from Islamic countries.

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

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

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.

It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

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

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.