Mass Quotes - Page 10

• The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Emotional

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• The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, Intellectual, Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, Propaganda, Should

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Attitude, Men

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• It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

  Christopher Lasch

  Bourgeoisie, Peculiar, Horror

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• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Trying, Recipes, Want

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• The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Age, Faust

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• Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

  David Riesman

  America, Long, Documentaries

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.220, Transaction Publishers

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• Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

  Ovid

  Nature, Science, Sea

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

  Eugenio Montale

  Responsibility, Differences, Solitude

  Eugenio Montale (1976). “Poet in our time”, Calder Publications

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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Determination, Gun, Race

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Individual, Grazing, Rations

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• We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

  Joe Manchin

  Culture, Violence

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. January 13, 2013.

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• People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Country, Nice, Thinking

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• Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Reality, Veils, World

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.143, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

  Jim Caviezel

  Humble, Trying, Rosary

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• I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

  Jim Caviezel

  Ideas, Calling, Holiness

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• We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.

  Paul Cellucci

  Mass Destruction, Organization, Iraq

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• We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, War, Impact

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• Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Racist, Moments, Murderer

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• Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, "I want to be an artist" - is a good thing.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Mother, Art, Kids

  Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

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• I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.

  Esha Gupta

  Communication, Years, Law

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• There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

  Marc Andreessen

  Believe, People, Together

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• The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and immigrant policy (how we treat people who are already here). What our nation needs is a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. A pro-immigrant policy of low immigration can reconcile America's traditional welcome for newcomers with the troubling consequences of today's mass immigration. It would enable us to be faithful and wise stewards of America's interests while also showing immigrants the respect they deserve as future Americans.

  Tom Tancredo

  Wise, Two, America

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• ... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Waiting, Politics

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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