Quotes of Mass - somelinesforyou

“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. ”

- Georges Bernanos

“ The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only — not from its privileged classes. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Mass on Sunday is the traditional time for families, but it's primarily a religious feast. ”

- Glenn Duffy

“ Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. ”

- Bible

“ You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ You have to be a grownup. You have to decide what government should do and not do. And what's its appropriate size and what's its appropriate scale. ”

- Esther Dyson

“ Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever. ”

- Zedong Mao

“ Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ”

- Seneca

“ No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. ”

- Michel De Certeau

“ There's going to be a lot of positioning from a political standpoint, and I think you've seen it. ”

- Bill Frist

“ You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like it. ”

- Paul Daniels

“ Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?". ”

- Joan Manley

“ One man with courage makes a majority. ”

- Andrew Jackson

“ Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots. ”

- Jay Trachman

“ The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. ”

- R. S. Donnell

“ He has the power whom the majority believe in. ”

- Unknown

“ A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ One on God's side is a majority. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise. ”

- Francis Thompson
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