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Quotes About Mass

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
~ Jacques Ellul
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.
~ John Dewey
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
~ Loren Eiseley
What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.
~ Erich Fromm
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.
~ Christina Stead
The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.
~ Michelle Alexander
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!
~ Nicholas A. Basbanes
Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
~ William Blake
He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.
~ Rachel Caine
Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.
~ Rob Zombie
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
~ Paul Morley
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
~ Don Ellis
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
~ Andreas Libavius
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
~ Alfred Adler
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and .
~ George Orwell
The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.
~ Lynne McTaggart
From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.
~ Saul Alinsky
I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!
~ Hermann Goring
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
~ Al Gore
O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
~ William Blake
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
~ William J. Clinton
That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of the human mind. It may assume the lowliest air, but sinful man seeks his own honour and present exaltation.
~ William Kelly