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“Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.”

People Kind Said Soul Might Evil Sin Accepting Darkness Creative Worship Mass Everyday Sinner Dragons Originality Badness Humdrum Vetinari Without A Trace Darkness Of The Soul

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.”

People Numbers Greater Weapons Mass Destruction Iraq Terror Terrorism Sanctions Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction War On Terror

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies.”

People I Can Body Energy Sea Feet Arms Band Ocean Mass Draws Wave Decades Tides Snakes Jumping Harness Portland Seething

Book:Hana: A Delirium Short Story

Source: Hana: A Delirium Short Story

“You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.”

People Ifs Want Said Past Remember Faces Memories Gone Wonderful Married Mass Photograph Definitions Cards Funeral Uniforms Closets Invitations Solace Cracked Faded Times Past Wonderful Memories

Book:Blue Nights

Source: Blue Nights

“You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.”

People Knows Believe Persons Enough Play Helping Mass Motive

Book:The Lathe Of Heaven

Source: The Lathe Of Heaven

“I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.”

People Way Should Believe Two Real Shows Feelings Light Night Wish Regret Mass Dresses Evening Worn Our Wedding Wedding Night

Author:Emily Giffin

“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

People Men Soul Spiritual Culture Existence Consciousness Modern Mass Setting Settings Consumers Barriers Crucial Civilisation Spiritual Beings Mass Culture Prosthetics

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.”

People Done Today Force Common Successful Greater Morality Authority Mass Myth Ideology Rulers Cunning Deceived Misplaced Captivated

Author:Theodor Adorno

“Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.”

“Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.”

People Needs Reason Enough Facts Strong Common Secret Fiction Teaching Mass Imperfect Contemplating Multitudes Sublime Strong Enough Brilliance Not Strong Kept Secrets Not Strong Enough

Author:Albert Pike

“Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.”

People Years Said Seems Beautiful Emotion Taken Five Events Mass Asking Decades Five Years Dustbin

Author:Doris Lessing

“Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.”

People Men World Made Real Self Belief Mass Expectations Concepts Real World Stereotype Abstraction

Author:Abraham Maslow

“I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.”

People Knows Long Made Black Hell Mass Boxing Black People Famous Boxer

Author:Muhammad Ali

“...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.”

People Degrees Mass Ordinary Ordinary Things

Author:Bill Bryson

“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.”

People Lying Easy Mistake Victory Mass Claims Difficulty Mask

Author:Amilcar Cabral

“My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.”

People Thinking Real Whole Wanted Money Business Vision Media Internet Mass Aspect Presses Greed Excited Mediums Bubbles Lots Of Money Distracted Printing Dots Hallucinations Printing Press

Author:Craig Newmark

“In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.”

People Individual Mass Intelligence Plenty

Book:Higher education and the state government: an address

Source: Higher education and the state government: an address

“We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.”

People Peace Planets Mass Violent Eras Tragic Refugee Hostile Exile Comes And Goes Desolate

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition

“A few really dedicated people can offset the masses of out of harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter, we must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can. We must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and know that peace is possible. What we dwell upon we help bring to manifestation. One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. Many people giving some of their time can make history.”

People Thinking Knows Way Giving Littles Persons Helping Speak Peace Inspire Praying News Mass Harmony Manifestation Dedicated Inspire Others Pray For Peace

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.”

“I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.”

People Life Wells Two Able Suffering Humanity Dies Three Millions Courage Saws Ten Mass Understood Died Good Things Vain Meaning Of Life Life And Death

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain the freedom of the mass media themselves. The free society is one where advertising and advertising agencies are likely to be in considerable demand, though it is true that even in a totally centralist society there would still be a need for organisations and people to have access to mass communication media.”

“Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days, or turn up for political meetings, is that for the vast majority of us those rights have been fulfilled. These days it's in the adverts for mobile phones or foreign holidays where phrases like "Join the Revolution!" and "Cry Freedom!" are bandied about for a generation which knows nothing of their provenance. Just as now we have luxury illnesses to replace real ones, so now we have luxury politics.”

“Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.”

People Evil Speech Mass Moved Broads Power Of Speech

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present.”

People Mean Ideas Energy Party Millions Greater Mass Inspired Population Socialism Factors Enthusiasm Communism Daring Militant

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.”

People Men Done Inspiration Names Happened Atheism Mass Murder Atheist Committed Deeds Deny Ideology Communist Pot Host Bloody Disputes Utopia Ideological Atrocities Atheistic Mao

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.”

“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.”

“This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.”

People Whole Together Purpose Fighting Individual Nations Interest Powerful Discipline Members Mass Conscious Army Chinese Broads Sole Stand Firm Clique

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.”

People Grows Conditions Mass Destruction Positivity Absence Internals Mass Destruction Peace And Justice Full Potential Peace Justice Social Injustice Internal Peace

Book:Nonviolence Speaks to Power

Source: Nonviolence Speaks to Power

“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes”

Source: Legend of lovers

“The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettos, like animals. They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! Few white people realize that many black people today dislike and avoid spending more time than they must about white people. This 'integration' image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them - and that's a lie!”

“The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.”

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.”

People Whole Order Interest Mass Meaningful Preserves Educate

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.”

Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2

“The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'”

“The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market.”

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

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