Mass Quotes · Page 19

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

— Igor Stravinsky

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

— Ryan McGinley

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

— Eric Hoffer

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Christopher Lasch

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

— David Olusoga

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

— Gao Xingjian

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

— Laozi

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have…

— Edward Snowden

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible…

— Shia LaBeouf

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired…

— Stanley Kubrick

I personally think that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is a truly better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein. But, naturally, I also…

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to…

— T. S. Eliot

The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into…

— Friedrich Engels

I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all.…

— Adolf Hitler

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between…

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a…

— Bill Lawrence

No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power…

— Bernie Sanders

A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and…

— Philip D. Murphy

Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your…

— Flann O'Brien

Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We…

— George W. Bush

On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand,…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In…

— C. Wright Mills

We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind:…

— Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

— Frederick Lenz

I never expected there to be so many mass shootings connected to 8chan.

— Fredrick Brennan

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

— Pauline Kael

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

— Garrison Keillor

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

— Dick Gephardt

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

— Nelson Algren