“We're working to overcome the overly macho nature of the current online console game world, where a handful of the high testosterone crowd fight for supremacy, while the mass of casual game players stay away.” WorldFightingGamesPlayerMassOvercomingCurrentsCrowdsOnlineHandfulCasualConsoleSupremacyMachoTestosterone Author:Reggie Fils-Aime
“To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.” EndsCreativeMassOvercomingSlaveryFacultyInertia Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.” PeopleEnoughShowsPowerfulPayAttentionEffectsMediaPhotographyMassOvercomingPhotographerPay AttentionIndifferenceShakesProtestReach OutMass Media Author:James Nachtwey
“I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and they all said the same thing. That there's a lot of popular, kind of, concern and activism, but it is very fragmented. That the groups have very specific, narrow agendas and they don't interact and cooperate with one another. Ok, that's something you have to overcome to build a mass popular movement. And that's, media can help, but they also benefit from it.” KnowsKindSaidHelpingLeftNumbersGroupsMediaMovementBenefitsMassConcernOvercomingClaimsActivismAgendasMexicoMexicanFragmented Author:Noam Chomsky
“I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.” WritingHeartEnoughLyingPurposeSpeakWishSocialIgnoranceMassEconomicsOvercomingMurderConsumptionInvincibleHad EnoughHoaxesConspicuous Consumption Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.” WellsKindTwoJobsFightingMassTasksOvercomingDifficultyArmyDefeatProductionsLabourFourthWarfareRoutesImperialism 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