Concentration Quotes - page 6

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands. (Spiro Agnew)
My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother's alive and well, but only because of America. Without America's military, the world would be in deep... fill-in-the-blank. I'm forever grateful for that. View quote
Gene Simmons
... a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, ... a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,... which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star' in Los Angeles. View quote
Georges Duhamel
Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration. And I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. View quote
Madeleine Stowe
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind. View quote
Tom Selleck
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. It is not just that there are a few powerful companies that control an ever expanding slice of the media. It is that this concentration can call upon an equally bloated range of rights - property rights of a historically extreme form - that makes their bigness bad. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
There has never been a time in history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
You have to have some kind of morality,” he said. "Sure. Like you have to have motives for doing anything at all. Still, I think we're beyond that smug sort of code which proclaimed crusades and burned heretics and threw dissenters into concentration camps. We need more personal and less public honor. View quote
Poul Anderson
"Nothing," wrote General de Gaulle, "strengthens authority so much as silence." Speech dilutes thought; it allows one's courage to leak away - in short, it dissipates the concentration that is required. View quote
André Maurois
Such a perilous concentration of demons would create chaos all around it." "War gathers on these borders," said Ista. "A greater concentration of chaos I can hardly imagine. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
... women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps... they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit. View quote
Betty Friedan
Modern technique, as Marx pointed out, fosters the concentration of capital, and the levels of profits is supported by a scarcity of enterprise which is not due to the real cost of risk-bearing, but to the scarcity of individuals who have anything to risk. View quote
Joan Robinson
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. View quote
Bill Russell
Helmut Schmidt continues to speak of a sense of duty, predictability, feasibility, firmness [...] These are secondary virtues. Simply put precise:.. So you can also run a concentration camp with them. View quote
Helmut Schmidt
[T]here's a lot to be said for celibacy, for the concentration of your mental and physical energy. View quote
Camille Paglia
The mind can be trained to steadiness through those forms of concentration which have relation to the sense perceptions. View quote
Alice Bailey
The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perception, inability to achieve concentration, failure to hold the meditative attitude when achieved. View quote
Alice Bailey
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Right now, at this very moment, on American highways, there are no less than 5,000 concentration camp trucks. Trucks that we have constructed. Inside these trucks, there are living, terrified innocent beings. Cows and pigs and chickens. These trucks are being driven to concentration camp's slaughterhouses that we carefully constructed all across America. When the trucks arrive, the animals are so frightened that they won't even get off the truck. They're not stupid, they know what's next. So people go on the trucks with electric prods and force them to walk down the chutes to their own deaths. Or if the animals are small enough to man handle, like chickens, we'll just grab them off the trucks and toss them inside.Inside, these innocent, living beings are hanged upside down, fully conscious. In other words,they go in alive, against their will, and come out chopped up, into hundreds of pieces. (Gary Yourofsky)
In November 1944 the Nazi authorities finally decided to deport my labor unit from Budapest to an Austrian concentration camp, where most of my comrades eventually perished. But I was lucky enough to make my escape from the railway station in Budapest, just before our train left for Austria. Then a Jesuit father I had known gave me refuge in the cellar of their monastery. View quote
John Harsanyi
It wasn't in our interests for the material to be used for labor in the concentration camps to arrive completely useless and needing repair.... Look, how can you make 25,000 Jews, or people, or let's say 25,000 cows, how can you simply let 25,000 animals just disappear en route? Have you ever seen 25,000 people in a pile? ... Have you ever seen 10,000 people in a pile? That's five transport trains, and if you pack them in the way the Hungarian police planned, then at best you'll get no more than 3,000 people in one transport train. Loading a train is a tricky business anyway, whether it's with cattle or flour sacks ... and so much more difficult to load it with people, especially when you have problems to reckon with. View quote
Adolf Eichmann
An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march. View quote
Simon Blackburn
Now it is time to encourage the BIS and other regulatory bodies to support studies on stress-test and concentration methodologies. Planning for crises is more important than VAR analysis. View quote
Myron Scholes