Quotes on Mass

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.