Mass Quotes

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

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.

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.

The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.