Mass Quotes

2108 Mass quotes by 1410 unique authors

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another… — Dan Simmons
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. — Jacques Ellul
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.… — Theodore Levitt
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the… — Clay Shirky
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. — Janet Reno
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and… — John C. Calhoun
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. — Bertrand Russell
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most… — John Quincy Adams
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. — Eric Hoffer
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,… — Thomas Jefferson
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only… — Samuel Johnson
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by… — George C. Marshall
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable… — Ludwig von Mises
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome… — Ludwig von Mises
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig von Mises
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars… — P.J. O'Rourke
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;… — Albert Einstein
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to… — Lewis Thomas

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