The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating… — Maurice Grimaud Copy Share Image
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers,… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society. — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly… — William James Copy Share Image
As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
The difference between the truth of God and revelation is very simple. Truth is where God's been. Revelation is where God is.… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“There is no actual death in the Universe, only a transition from one state to another. The fact that matter, for the… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right. — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a given period of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes… — Terence Fisher Copy Share Image
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of… — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image