“Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.” SoulSelfUsedIndividualEnergySocialPayDemocracyMediaMoralityCostMassInstinctInsightDiscriminationUsed To BeEaseThriveUniquenessPsychicsPerversionMass Media Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.” MenWantWellsWisdomSufferingOrderPoliticsEconomyCostMassCompetitionProductionsActiveLiberalismDependentInsecurityOwnersExploits Book:The Great Heresies Source: The Great Heresies
“As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.” CountryHigherCostMassIncreaseEmbraceUniversityRelativeElitesMaintainingHigher Education Author:Derek Bok
“Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.” StatesSupportCostBenefitsMassPublic ServicePublic EducationIncarcerationMass Incarceration Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors... the now and forever king-of-the-hill.” WorldShouldForeverTheoryReturnKingsCostMassLowsInvestmentInvestingDrivenCoreHillsInvestorsEquityCapsIndexing Author:Cliff Asness
“You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.” MeanCountryTodayReadingGivenOne ThingPlanetsTerribleCostDirectorsPaperWeaponsMassDestructionPressesCriticsFolksStudiosReviewsSci FiKillersPapersDystopianDarlingWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionFluxGdpSmall Countries Author:David Edelstein
“I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.” SaidWarEndsStatesUnitedMillionsUnited StatesCostWeaponsMassDestructionDiedIntentionIraqProofCapabilityTroopsAttackingInjuredOctoberWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Dennis Kucinich
“The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.” LittlesHardMomentsDifficultRichReturnCostMassDetailsPassingPassingsDaydreamingAtonementPlausibleReverieSillinessBefore And Now Book:Atonement Source: Atonement