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Mass Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by…
- The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
- The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
- A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There…
- The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any…
- There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
- Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise…
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate…
More Mass Quotes
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of… — Irving Babbitt
- In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. — Russell Baker
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. — Frederic Bastiat