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“To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.”

“[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.”

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.”

People Ifs Humans Looks Feelings Dream Would Be Purpose Wonderful Creating Mass Misery Significant Awake Aspire Percentages Great People Being There Insignificance Stop Dreaming

Author:Craig Stone

“The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Different Feelings Action Order Black White Knowing Events Mass First Time Population Defense Different Ways Transformed Stubborn Segregation Risen

Author:Howard Zinn

“At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.”

World Feelings Culture Challenges Attention Sacrifice Mass Simplicity Isolation Vague Mass Culture

Book:Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

“miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.”

May Feelings Happens Missing Particular Mass Superstitious

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.”

Stills Feelings Culture Literature Style Crime Mass Murder Ignorant Possessed Ungrateful Popular Culture Poisoning

Book:Letters of George Sand

Source: Letters of George Sand