Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Paul Wellstone

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

Broderick Crawford

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.

Al Gore

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

George Orwell

Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be on their best behavior, raise their arms and spread their legs for the police without complaint, stay in failing schoo...

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

We could choose to be a nation that extends care, compassion, and concern to those who are locked up and locked out or headed for prison before they are old enough to vote. We could seek for them the same opportunities we seek for our own children; w...

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

For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, onc...

The Spies of Warsaw

Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not create and, if we are to believe certain facile condemnations, would not want to create. A literary critic is a...

The Poetics of Space

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

Elites and Masses

Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne

Flight of the Eagle

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Marshall McLuhan

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

Ben Hecht

Young girls and mass murders are tender hearted creatures

Alex

Any woman would have to be dead not to be attracted to the walking mass of sexy that was Erik MacGregor.

Love Potions

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

Ernestine Rose

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

Samantha Power

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

Richard Leakey

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

Richard Morris

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

Richard Morris