Mass famous quotes

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
-- Aaron McGruder

#Black #Made #Mass

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

#Genius #Invention #Mass

The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.
-- Al Goldstein

#Revolutionary #Mass #Innovative

I'm not really a mass market writer.
-- Alan Furst

#Mass

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.
-- Alan Sugar

#Nuclear #Weapons #Mass

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.
-- Albert J. Nock

#Political #Mind #Mass

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

#Yale #Mass

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Generations #Next #Mass

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

#Taste #Facts #Mass

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

#Revolution #Mass #Conscience

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity
-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Kind #Mass #Mankind

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
-- Amos Lee

#Artist #Mass #Appeals

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
-- Andre Malraux

#Art #Communication #Mass

I go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass.
-- Andrea Corr

#Church #Praying #Mass

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.
-- Andrej Pejic

#Female #Muscles #Mass

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
-- Andy Warhol

#Artist #Stink #Mass

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.
-- Antonis Samaras

#Invasion #Mass

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
-- Aristotle

#Taste #Beast #Mass

I founded this school for the masses.
-- Atiku Abubakar

#School #Mass

It is the Mass that matters.
-- Augustine Birrell

#Matter #Mass

It is the Mass the matters.
-- Augustine Birrell

#Matter #Worship #Mass

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
-- Aulis Sallinen

#People #Sound #Mass

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

#Art #World #Mass

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

#Racist #Moments #Mass

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.
-- Boris Vian

#Individual #Torts #Mass

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal
-- Brad Paisley

#Water #Causes #Mass

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
-- Broderick Crawford

#Trouble #Priests #Mass

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses
-- Bruce LaBruce

#Opiates #Heterosexuality #Mass

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

#Density #Velocity #Mass

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Addiction #Ownership #Mass

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
-- Clay Shirky

#Why Not #Internet #Mass

[The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals...
-- Conrad Black

#Mass #Jackals

There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Sea #Mackerel #Mass

Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general mass of people. And for those who find that they can't, all of sudden they leave the general mass, they find that they become exceptions, and exceptional, and often this makes them public.
-- David Bezmozgis

#People #Kind #Mass

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
-- Denis Hayes

#Earth Day #Too Late #Mass

Football is the ballet of the masses.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich

#Football #Ballet #Mass

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

#Stories #Information #Mass

It is people who are important, not the masses.
-- Dorothy Day

#People #Important #Mass

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
-- Douglas J. Feith

#Weapons #Destruction #Mass

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

#Talking #Mass Incarceration #Mass

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
-- E. L. Doctorow

#Answers #Permit #Mass

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
-- Ellen Willis

#Art #Advertising #Mass

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

#Freedom #Energy #Mass

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.
-- Erle Stanley Gardner

#Rating #Mass #Dislike

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.
-- Eugene Schwartz

#Desire #Tasks #Mass

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

#Band #Mass #Consumption

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure

#Expression #Mass

Strength without agility is a mere mass.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Agility #Mass

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.
-- Frantz Fanon

#Reality #Citizens #Mass

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
-- Frederic Harrison

#Mass #Lifeless #Organs

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
-- Gail Carriger

#Mass #Ill #Soulless

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
-- George Orwell

#Long #Mass #Standards

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

#Evil #Earth #Mass

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

#Mass #Mankind #My Sympathy

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.
-- Henry Hazlitt

#Poverty #Mass #Capitalism

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

#Past #Advertising #Mass

They mislead the unwitting masses.
-- Huang Huahua

#Lying #Deceit #Mass

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
-- Igor Stravinsky

#Real #Writing #Mass

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

#Authority #Mass #Method

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.
-- James Madison

#Law #Operations #Mass

Mass appreciation doesnt always equate to something good.
-- Jamie Dornan

#Appreciation #Mass

What the masses want are monuments.
-- Jean Drapeau

#Want #Mass #Monument

For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen

#Deportation #Cold #Mass

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

#Attention #Superstar #Mass

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.
-- Joe Manchin

#Culture #Violence #Mass

The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.
-- Joe Slovo

#Believe #Movement #Mass

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.
-- John Longenecker

#Thinking #Mind #Mass

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
-- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

#Essence #Mass #Observation

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
-- John Ortberg

#Doe #Mass #Masterpiece

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
-- John Perry Barlow

#Ideas #Ignorant #Mass

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.
-- John Ralston Saul

#Mass #Unschooling #Bottom

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.
-- John Steinbeck

#Gauges #Mass #Register

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.
-- Joseph Pilates

#Teaching #Progress #Mass

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.
-- Juliana Hatfield

#Heart #Winning #Mass

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
-- Karl Radek

#Views #Agitation #Mass

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.
-- Katherine Applegate

#Mosquitoes #Earth #Mass

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
-- Lawrence Durrell

#Sorrow #Mass #Gravitation

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is,
-- Lisa Randall

#Mass #Physicist

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

#People #Mass #Teach

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

#Country #Way #Mass

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
-- Mao Zedong

#Inspirational #Mass #Teach

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.
-- Margaret Cho

#Brain #Firsts #Mass

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.
-- Marian Diamond

#Brain #Earth #Mass

If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Prayer #Church #Mass

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.
-- Martin Luther

#Church #Mass

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

#Earth #Mass #Neutrinos

The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.
-- Menachem Begin

#Feet #Slave #Mass

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.
-- Michael Hastings

#Writing #Facts #Mass

There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.
-- Michael Maloney

#Two #Kind #Mass

The mass media are class media.
-- Michael Pare

#Media #Class #Mass

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
-- Michael Torke

#Music #Waste #Mass

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

#Islamic #Poverty #Mass

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
-- Michel de Certeau

#Individual #Mass #Grazing

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev

#Democracy #Socialism #Mass

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

#Indirect #Mass #Observation

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
-- Morris Raphael Cohen

#Law #Decision #Mass

If I look at the mass I will never act.
-- Mother Teresa

#Apathy #Looks #Mass

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes
-- Murray Edelman

#Political #Violence #Mass

Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.
-- Nadine Dorries

#Weapons #Destruction #Mass

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
-- Nelly

#Song #Mass