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“There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.”

Mind Order Mass England Queens Muscles Peace Of Mind Founders Microsoft Starters Queen Of England

Author:Victoria Moran

“I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.”

“I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.”

Mind Mass Destruction Exciting Majority Strategy Mass Destruction

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can't be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass, electric charge and so on...but how could they possibly have a cause and effect relationship with bodies that are said to have these, and only these physical properties?”

Mind Said Soul Body Causes Half Effects Mass Property Splits Electric Cause And Effect

Author:Austin Dacey

“One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.”

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.”

Mind Behinds Mass Innocence Impulse Superstitions Twisted Fads Flirtation Clandestine Ragtime

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.”

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“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.”

Mind Littles Belief Grows History Mass Prejudice Ancient Spread Spots Novelty Patches Stains Grease

Book:Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth

Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth

“Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.”

Mind Political Mass All Things Universal Elites Tolerate Superiority Political Systems Suffrage Resentful Antipathy Universal Suffrage

Author:Albert J. Nock

“The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.”

World Giving Mind Humans Form Order Born Mass Patterns Committed Data Human Mind Rebel Meaningless Thrust Make Out Indomitable

Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.”

Way Mind Lines Cities Streets Modern Mass Weak Train Senses Depressing Passengers Carriages

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.”

Thinking Mind Policy Mass Deterrent

Author:John Longenecker

“When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give the world away and that is precisely what we have been doing throughout known human history. This is why the few have always controlled the masses.”

Ifs World Giving Mind Humans Has Beens Enough Responsibility Known Our Lives Mass Controlled Human History

Author:David Icke

“The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.”

Mind Has Beens Reason Seems Earth Evil Talent Eternal Mass Instruments Excited Impression Revelations Disgusting Vicious Abhorrence

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.”

Mind May Littles Doe Art Said Universe Principles Practice Objects Mass Draws Art Is Sight Wit Confused Veils Microscopes

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.”

Mind Self Struggle Clear Ignorance Mass Blue Glorious Heavenly Occupation Preaching Sustaining Inquiring Inquiring Minds

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Successful trading depends on the 3M`s - Mind, Method and Money. Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. Each trader needs to have a method for choosing specific stocks, options or futures as well as firm rules for pulling the trigger - deciding when to buy and sell. Money refers to how you manage your trading capital.”

“It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.”

“Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopédie. I think it will produce considerable good even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens Art Two Moments Age Moving Risk Security Pure Travel Mass Prepared Entrepreneurship Exploration Traveler Publicity Renaissance Tourists Bourgeois Tourism Explorers

Author:Paul Fussell

“In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans are the same everywhere and that the degree of variation between members of our species is very slight. This is of course an encouraging finding; it helps arm you against news programs back home that show seething or abject masses of either fanatical or torpid people. In another way it is a depressing finding; the sorts of things that make people quarrel and make them stupid are the same everywhere.”

“The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.”

Mind Art Artist Individual Goal Taken Dying Civilization Mass Glory Blind Headings Scrap

Author:Elie Faure

“but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few”

“Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.”

Mind Body Form Energy Mass Assuming Determine Appearance Your Body

Author:Terry Cole-Whittaker

“... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.”

Mind Persons Audience Mass Laughter Theatre Happy Familiar Guarantees Impressive Guarantees That Happy Laughter

Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.”

People Want Mind Difficult Mass Majority Familiar Something New

Author:Jason Gann

“Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.”

Men Needs Mind Soul Political Religious Results Opinion Mass Finals Manipulation Upbringing Orientation Thorough Slumber Tenacious Political Opinions

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.”

Thinking Men Mind Certain Powerful Numbers Leader Knowing Mass Majority Scoundrels Submissive Powerful Leaders

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.”

Mind Government Law Waiting Space Mass Space Between

Author:Theodore Parker

“Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.”

Source: Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation

“Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.”

People Men Needs Mind May Hands Felt Liberty Class Please Mass Repressed Impunity

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!”

Mind Two Support Source Mass Ignorant Dictator Psychopathic Ignorant Masses

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.”

Men Mind Humans Energy Prayer Praying Highest Mass Capable Concentration Faculty Human Mind Incapable Worldly

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.”

Source: The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

“The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire, you need to react to it. And, if it doesn't penetrate your mind, you can't react to it.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“In our nation a new and insidious form of religious hatred is developing. I believe there is an attempt to create hatred in the public mind toward orthodox Christians, Jews, and Catholics. It is being implemented by the mass media.”

Mind Believe Christian Form I Believe Nations Religious Media Mass Hatred Catholic Jew Developing Orthodox Orthodox Christian Insidious Mass Media Religious Hatred

Book:Who will rule the future?

Source: Who will rule the future?

“You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.”

Mind Humans Produce Mass Human Mind Software Hardware

Author:Michio Kaku

“The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents from the Communist bloc. They did not envision the mass displacements of people we are seeing today.”

People Mind War Today Seeing Cold Thousand Protect Mass Communist Conventions Cold War Refugee Displacement Dissidents

Author:Kofi Annan

“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”

Mind Political Media Television Mass Indication Sponsors Great Service Sponsorship

Book:Tallulah: My Autobiography

Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography

“None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.”

Mind War Done Film Stars Audience Mass Indiana Graffiti Mind Thoughts

Author:George Lucas

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

“The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.”

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Author:Michelangelo

“The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.”

Mind Book Age Culture Reading Pleasure Mass Encounters Adapted Pleasures Of Life Mass Culture

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.”

Source: Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)

“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

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Author:Giordano Bruno

“He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in my throat as he reached out and brushed a strand of hair where it had flown across my cheek. 'I believe we do have unfinished business.' 'Good.' I gulped, suddenly one big mass of tingling body parts that wanted an immediate introduction to all of his body parts. I tried to slam down a mental barrier between his mind and mine, but it did no good. The cheerleaders in my groin were setting up fundraising car washes to finance a field trip to his groin.”

“It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.”