...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a mass movement, as opposed to a quote-unquote "elite," you are talking to people who don't have… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
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
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people,… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like, arching exercises… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
