Mass Quotes - page 3

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. (V. S. Naipaul)
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts. View quote
Vitruvius
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us. View quote
Dick Cheney
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. View quote
Smedley Butler
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. View quote
Che Guevara
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. View quote
Hannah Arendt
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. (Joseph Conrad)
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, How many things I have no need of. View quote
Socrates
Paris is well worth a mass. View quote
Henry IV of France
The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content. View quote
Albert Einstein
As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. View quote
Tony Blair
Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also. View quote
Tony Blair
Some big businessmen did contribute to the Nazi election funds but German capitalism cannot be regarded, on the evidence, as having collectively brought fascism to power in any direct sense. Fascism in Germany was a mass movement brought to power through collusion with a bankrupt but traditional elite, not as the puppet of big business. View quote
Richard Overy
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. View quote
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries. View quote
Arthur Henderson
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses. (Gustav Stresemann)
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. View quote
Elihu Root
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. View quote
Christopher Lasch
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. View quote
Christopher Lasch