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“Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.”

People Force Benefits Mass Lows Paid Workers British Immigration Wages

Author:Theresa May

“True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.”

People Way Dies Literature Knowing Mass Institutions True Education

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”

People Knows World Years Helping Lost Records This World Mass Agents Help Me Underestimate Employed Public Office Overestimate Lost Money

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.”

People Thinking Knows World Beautiful Mass Dignity Widows Very Beautiful Requiem

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.”

People Made Ideas Turns Mass Significant Made It No Idea Arrested

Author:Rosa Parks

“I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'”

People Thinking Said Done Mother Winning Parent Praying Mass Election Gods Will Sunday

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.”

People Want Trying Wells Happens Weapons Mass Gun Tasks Destruction Smoking Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Dots

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.”

People Way Want Political Ability Progress Influence Media Mass Evolve Cycles

Author:Zoe Saldana

“People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.”

People Looks Media Mass Officials Mass Media

Author:L. Neil Smith

“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.”

People Mind Country Feelings Government Purpose Class Mass Trials Jury Jurors Trial By Jury

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.”

People Way Want Character Girl Mass Connections Profound

Author:Kristen Stewart

“The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'”

People Thinking Knows World Doe Art Creativity Fashion Amount Mass Concepts Boards Art World Commercialism Fashion And Art

Author:Kanye West

“The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.”

People Believe Seems Happens Cities Majors Mass Nuclear Inevitable Proportion Bombs Gas Mask Germs Suitcases Resigned Greatest Fear Gas Masks

Author:David Wilkerson

“In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.”

People Whole Water Class Century Mass Structure Productions Revolutionary Urban Spinning Cotton Proletariat 18th Century Jenny Mass Production New Class

Author:A. N. Wilson

“There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.”

People May War Country Nations Levels Cases Mass Standards Prosperous Crops Standards Of Living Aftermath Subsistence

Author:Charles E. Wilson

“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

People Thinking Years Body Voice Common Behinds Opinion Birth Mass Experience Outcomes Solitary Masterpiece

Book:A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

Source: A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

“When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.”

People Men World Littles Shows Courses Differences Groups Subjects Mass Mad Ugly Appeals Evolve Cables Mad Men Ugly Betty

Author:Bryan Batt

“As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.”

People Long Enough Rights Mass Democratic Boards Frightened Tickets

Author:James Bovard

“The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.”

“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”

People Giving Said Moments Class Struggle Mass Practicals Educated Tragic Links Cowardice Laziness Mishaps Decisive Moments

Book:Damnés de la terre

Source: Damnés de la terre

“It is people who are important, not the masses.”

People Important Mass

Author:Dorothy Day

“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.”

People Becoming Mass Function Decades Tubes Obscenity Squeezing

Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong feelings for anyone, not even one's own parents: if it is possible to have a collectivity when one has not been deeply loved oneself by individual human creatures. Hasn't this had some effect on my life as a militant--has it not tended to make me sterile and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation?”

“What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.”

People Persons Whole Causes Conditions Events Mass Historical Historical Events

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”

People Looks Real Certain Universe Mass Capable Sticks Togetherness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?”

People Men Two Done Suffering Saws Happened Effects Mass Thrown Exception Machinery Sufferers

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Problem Reality Feminism Media Huge Equal Mass Majority Males Folks Feminist Seeking Sexism Misunderstanding Mass Media

Author:Bell Hooks

“Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.”

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.”

People Want Different Enough Care Christian Interest Alive Mass Percent Hundred Witty Don't Care Chosen Breathing I Don't Care Fascinating Companion Charming Corny Charitable

Author:Betty MacDonald

“There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000”

People Want Huge Mass Let Me Come Up Boston Bushism Let Me Down

Author:George W. Bush

“The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.”

People Writing Heart Church Prayer Events Mass Theater Longing Constructs Playwright

Author:Marsha Norman

“Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.”

“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.”

People Thinking Mind Doe Truth Wish Change Freedom Democracy Atheism Integrity Mass Lows Majority Proof Deception Patriotic

Author:Giordano Bruno

“Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.”

People Looks Poor Stupid Baby Mass Burned Poor People Burned Out Dead Baby

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“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.”

“I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!”

People Way Stills Book Hate Fun Answers Class Grew Grew Up Mass I Hate Police Diets Apologizing Rip Roaring

Book:The Tea Rose: A Novel

Source: The Tea Rose: A Novel

“A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?”

People Knows Want Mean Four Fit Normal Mass Smart Mouths Okay Who I Am Like Me Hanging Out Compliment Nerd Geek Fringe Dork

Author:Susane Colasanti

“One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.”

People Needs America Faces Spirituality Left Religious Mass Difficulty Profound Acknowledge Reaching Reach Out Disrespect Religious Life

Author:Bell Hooks

“When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.”

People Humans Heart Soul Sometimes Reason Turns Found Mass Bad Things Solitary Human Heart

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.”

People Ifs Men World Made Self Certain Enjoy Simple Existence Quality Security Mass Possession Self Respect Select Ostentation

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden. "The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.”

People Said Sometimes Use Hands Parent Break Mass Sick Size Gang Break Off Amoeba

Book:Blood and Chocolate

Source: Blood and Chocolate

“The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.”

People Country Eye Jobs Humanity Found Genius Mass Casts Driven Treasure Paris Camps Regimes Refugee Junk Fleas Unfriendly Cast Away Flea Markets Refugee Camps

Author:Allan Bloom

“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”

People Knows Believe War Seems I Believe Groups Benefits Mass Majority Expenses Antiwar Racket

Author:Smedley Butler

“There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.”

People Ifs Special Strange Mass All Alone Something Special Screwed Up Strange Places

Book:Small Steps

Source: Small Steps

“Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.”

People Giving Believe Helping Certain Understanding Numbers Advice Mass Sincerely Lottery Parking

Book:Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.”

People Ifs Believe Helping Lasts Values Company Share Mass Authenticity Advertising Brands Loyal Branding

Book:Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

“People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.”

People Thinking States Authority Mass Machines Finals Driven Free Society Frenzy Pathology

Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel

Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel

“People stared. Maybe because they were giants compared to everyone else, both in height and muscle mass. Maybe because of the telltale bulge of weapons at their waist. Or maybe because William opened a bag of Doritos and ate while he shopped. Hard to tell.”

People Hard Weapons Mass Height Giants Muscles Bags Doritos

Book:The Darkest Secret

Source: The Darkest Secret

“I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Littles I Can Matter Government Able Evil I Believe Mass Concern Population Accomplish Useless Officials Encounters Noli Me Tangere

Author:Jose Rizal

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