Best Mass Quotes

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It’s not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

If we don’t do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution – Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

I think what I’d really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy–the mass never frees itself.

There’s been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerously mentally ill.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

What gives me hope is art – it’s the most powerful weapons ever created. It’s a weapon of mass construction.

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

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

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.