Best 306 quotes in «mass quotes» category

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East

There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.

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.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

They mislead the unwitting masses.

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

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.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

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

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.

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

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women.

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.

We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the case, that mass surveillance is a violation of rights.

When a critical mass of people have the Bible and apply what it teaches in their lives, a nation is transformed.

What the masses want are monuments.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

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

When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

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

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better