Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses...

Steven Johnson

Magic?' Kate snorted. 'There's no such thing. Is there?' 'Magic?' Barnabas shrugged. 'Why not? Magic is cool.' 'But there has to be a rational explanation.' 'Oh there is,' Barnabas led her our of the cave and back to the shore. 'But a rational explan...

Doctor Who: Summer Falls

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging ...

The God Delusion

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, ...

Andrew Sullivan

I'm not really a mass market writer.

Alan Furst

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

Robin McLeavy

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

Warren Beatty

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

Ellen Willis

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

You are what you share.

We Think: The Power Of Mass Creativity

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

Michael Hastings

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

Richard Morris

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

Don Williams

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

"Religion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Postcards from the Edge

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Roger Stone

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Timothy Noah

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

John Stuart Mill

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Ulrich Beck