The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.
China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.
No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions
The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.
