The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
Growing up, it was difficult to find role models I could relate too. Mass media told me to emulate sexy singers or… — Lynsey Dyer Copy Share Image
May I so boldly suggest that this Thanksgiving, we focus on one-on-one conversations, instead of broadcasting our lives to the masses. — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a… — Seymour Krim Copy Share Image
I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as… — Ali Larijani Copy Share Image
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