Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

Ian MacKaye

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

John Hall

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

Alec Baldwin

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Ellen Goodman

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

W.E.B. Dubois

I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.

Richard Dooling

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Lionel Barrymore

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

People of the Book

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Rosa Luxemburg

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

Stephen Hawking

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

Louis Farrakhan

No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

Maria Mitchell

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Greil Marcus

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Walt Disney

The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.

Safak Pavey

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Ingrid Newkirk

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitler

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

Emma Bonino

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Herbert Read

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Karl Radek