A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead… — Nicholas A. Basbanes Copy Share Image
What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to find faith.” — Nicholas Stacey Copy Share Image
When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary. Humanity will,… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
We do a lot of "capital I" important stories, but one I'd highlight is the work we've done on guns, not only… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly,… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class,… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is:… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet,… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
