Best 306 quotes in «mass quotes» category

Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

A few really dedicated people can offset the ill effects of masses of out-of-harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

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

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

A short reign does not spare the masses.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

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

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And yet many continue to defend and promote them.

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

I am a mass of contradictions.

Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place