Mass Quotes - page 2

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials. (Zhu Rongji)
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. View quote
Graham Greene
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. View quote
Michael Moore
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. View quote
W. H. Auden
The upbringing of the people, and particularly means of mass influence - the press, radio, television, and film - should be in the hands of people whose good Islamic moral and intellectual authority is indisputable. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
American institutionalists were not theoretical but anti-theoretical.... Without a theory they had nothing to pass on except a mass of descriptive material waiting for a theory, or a fire. View quote
Ronald Coase
I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me. View quote
Carl Sandburg
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. (Muammar Gaddafi)
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 held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks. View quote
John C. Calhoun
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. View quote
Robert Browning
Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed. View quote
Robert Browning
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics. View quote
James Meade
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. View quote
Emma Lazarus
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. View quote
Louis Sullivan
We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or dangers of weapons of mass destruction. View quote
Hosni Mubarak
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. View quote
Thomas Mann
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. View quote
Helen Keller
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. (John Steinbeck)
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. View quote
Carl Jung
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it? View quote
Edward Bernays
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses. View quote
Heinrich Heine
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