Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Alex Steffen

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

Carl Jung

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

Jacques Ellul

The most critical of these new religious developments for twentieth-century religious liberalism were a renewed and transformed emphasis on mystical practice and experience, the healing ministry known as mind cure, and the rise of modern psychology. ...

The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing c...

Carl Sagan

When the devil goes to mass he hides his tail.

Louisiana

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.

Vladimir Bukovsky

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

George Henry Lewes

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Jacques Ellul

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Georges Bernanos

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Robert Collier

...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in t...

The Schwa Was Here

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

the target of the masses is that which stands out of the masses

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Was wir über unsere Gesellschaft, ja über die Welt, in der wir leben, wissen, wissen wir durch die Massenmedien

The Reality of the Mass Media

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Christopher Lasch

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Christopher Lasch

After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

Abdolkarim Soroush

We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too

Alan Sugar

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Walter Benjamin