The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Climate change will result in mass migrations of humans out of areas that can no longer sustain life and into naturally abundant… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“At the same time that a massive deployment of biologically harmful radio frequency (RF) radiation devices across the mass population has occurred,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
BMX riding breaks down racial perceptions. Coming from New York City and being a BMX rider, that isn't something that's too common.… — Nigel Sylvester Copy Share Image
If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson 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
“What difference does it make if the bread and wine turn into the Body and Blood of Christ and we don't?” — Godfrey Diekman OSB Copy Share Image
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did. — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot,… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing;… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it… — Robert Patterson Copy Share Image
Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations. — Pervez Musharraf Copy Share Image
We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image