M Quotes
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“Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.”
“Mass formation is, in essence, a kind of group hypnosis that destroys individual's ethical self-awareness and robs them of their ability to think critically.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new, high tech prisons and then relegated to a permanent undercaste - stigmatized as undeserving of any moral care or concern.”
“Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.”
“Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.”
“Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.”
“Mass is like a knife that can be used to peel an apple or to destroy human life. This depends entirely on whether the person controlling the mass is a balanced, normal person or a psychopathic, abnormal person, since the crowd has no mind of its own.”
“Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.”
“Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.”
“Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.”
“Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.”
“Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.”
“Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.”
“Mass media has convinced us to think that silence is only supposed to happen as a manifestation of supreme actualization, where both parties are so at peace with their emotional connection that it cannot be expressed through the rudimentary tools of the lexicon; otherwise, silence is proof that the magic is gone and the relationship is over (hence the phrase “We just don’t talk anymore”).”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Mass media programmers know that the best way to capture audience share is to titillate the masses with conflict, violence, sex, and rampant acts of ghoulishness. Americans are rapidly exchanging their energizing personal inner vibrancy for sedate forms of televised tickling.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.”
“Mass movements are a function of adaptation. Its pulse is change. A movement without mass is a cult. And it is in cults that stupid tyrants hold sway.”
“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.”
“Mass movements use irrationality to shut out the intellect, to turn people into predictable, mindless machines. Both Stalin and Hitler used blind faith as a device for mechanizing souls. (11)”
Source: Reflections on the Human Condition
“Mass murder can be complicated. But profitable.”
Source: Waterborne
“Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
“Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.”
“Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.”
Source: Propaganda
“Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers.”
Source: 3D Printing: Rise of the Third Industrial Revolution
“Mass reporting a common tool to try to make the legitimate sites belonging to targets of online abuse vanish as many systems our automated to react to a large volume of reports. Law-enforcement agencies and government bodies like the IRS have online reporting systems that can also be manipulated this way by a mob.”
Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
“Mass shootings are all part of a vast Left-wing conspiracy to undermine the 2nd Amendment and deprive your 6-year-old of his God-given right to bring a Bushmaster to class for "show and tell" ... The one he got from his psychotic, meth-addicted uncle's trailer while the latter was out getting the Confederate flag tattooed on his face. Remember, guns don't kill: the dimwits who insist EVERYONE should have the right to own 'em do.”
“Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.”
“Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.”
“Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.”
“Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.”
“Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.”
“massa demais”
“Massachusetts became the first state to marry gay couples, though lawmakers say allowing gay couples to get married raises a lot of questions. You know, such as: does that best man invite both guys to the bachelor party?”
“Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.”
“Massachusetts had elevated cod from commodity to fetish.”
Source: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
“Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.”
“Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy.”
“Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.”
“Massage is considered to be an effective method to strengthen the immune system, as it combines essential oil application with touch, entering through the largest organ in our bodies, our skin”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.”
“Massage is the study of anatomy in braille.”
“Massage. Numerous studies have examined the effects of massage on everyone from babies and new mothers to breast-cancer survivors and people who suffer from migraines. The results are fairly clear that massage boosts your serotonin by as much as 30 percent. Massage also decreases stress hormones and raises dopamine levels, which helps you create new good habits.”
Source: The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
“Massage reduces pain because the oxytocin system activates painkilling endorphins. Massage also improves sleep and reduces fatigue by increasing serotonin and dopamine and decreasing the stress hormone cortisol. So if you’re feeling out of sorts, get a massage. You’ll be actively triggering the neurotransmitter systems that work to make you happier.”
Source: The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
“Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show.”
“Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.”
“Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances”
“Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious