Mass Quotes - Page 2

• Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fate, Thinking, America

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• The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

  Benito Mussolini

  Army, Crowds

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• There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.

  Tommy Franks

  War, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Believe, Media, Addiction

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

  Dennis Weaver

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Consciousness

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• Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• It will be! the mass is working clearer!
  Conviction gathers, truer, nearer!
  The mystery which for Man in Nature lies
  We dare to test, by knowledge led;
  And that which she was wont to organize
  We crystallize, instead.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Hard Work, Knowledge

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

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• The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Mass Destruction, Roles, Alliances

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• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  H. L. Mencken

  Couple, Political, Baptism

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• 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Media, Political

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Poet & The City"), (p. 83), 1962.

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• I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.

  Billy Joel

  Thinking, America, Has Beens

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• Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

  Bill Lipinski

  Bridges, Long, Gaps

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• Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

  Christopher Lasch

  Heart, Upgrading, Taste

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 the next by a logical string. In truth, whenever we discover a new fact it involves the elimination of old ones. We are always, as it turns out, fundamentally in error.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Errors, Facts

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• Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Media, Political, Mind

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

  Gavyn Davies

  Believe, People, Want

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• The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

  Wernher von Braun

  Technology, Men, Funny Work

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• The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

  Tony Blair

  Real, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  "Bush, Blair Decry Hussein" by Karen DeYoung, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2002.

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• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement

  Barbara Boxer

  War, Commitment, Wmd

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• Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Law, Knowing

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• If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

  George Henry Lewes

  Height, Argument, Speak

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

  Louis Sullivan

  Design, Individuality, Spirit

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• I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

  Colin Greenwood

  Brother, Musical, Ends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

  Warren Beatty

  Heart, Media, America

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