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• We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Acting, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old." "I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing." "Great!" "Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.

  Neal Stephenson

  Adventure, Talking, Giving

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

  Boris Vian

  Individual, Torts

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• All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reality, Faithful, Doctrine

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
  The cry of an applauding multitude,
  Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields
  The living mass as if he were its soul!

  William C. Bryant

  Soul, Oratory, Cry

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Flood Of Years”

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• In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

  Kim Jong Il

  Names, Demand, Causes

  "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea". Speech on the occasion of the 165th birthday of Karl Marx and the Centenary of his death, May 03, 1983.

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• The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Errors, Immense

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• Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

  Penny Lernoux

  Powerful, Men, White Man

  Penny Lernoux (1980). “Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America--the Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy”

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

  Flora Thompson

  Law, Purity, Goodness

  Flora Thompson (1986). “The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside”, David & Charles

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• Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

  Jack Crawford

  Courage, Fighting, Lines

  Jack Crawford (1913). “Whar' the Hand O' God is Seen: & Other Poems”

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• We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of reliance on governing functions. Most people don’t want to come to terms with that. It’s been proven over and over again that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, but most people don’t like to look at naked emperors. In the process of turning around to avert their eyes, they saw the discotheques and a few other things and latched onto them.

  Frank Zappa

  Eye, Clothes, People

  Oui interview, 1979.

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• Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Mass Destruction, Example

  "Diplomatic License", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2004.

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• Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Mass Destruction

  "15 Years of Mass Destruction in Iraq". "The Real News Network" with Sharmini Peries, therealnews.com. March 20, 2018.

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• The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages committed against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end to all these horrors, these wrongs, this inhumanity to man? No, not the gods, but MAN must rise in his mighty wrath. He, deceived by all the deities, betrayed by their emissaries, he, himself, must undertake to usher in justice upon the earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Song, Men

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.

  Patrick Geddes

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Solitude, Suggestions

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.415, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Home, Space, Light

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• The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.211, Lexington Books

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• What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Long, People, World

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• In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Triumph, Deliverance

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.10, Modern Library

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Army, Want, Profit

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Phones, Nsa

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• We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Breathing, Clay, May

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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