A Quote by Max Beerbohm

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

Max Beerbohm

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Crowd Emotions Size Them Thought Units

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Max Beerbohm
English - Actor
August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

Sheila Jeffreys

... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.

Barbara Kruger

Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts its authority over non-Muslims, unlike Jewish law and unlike canon law, which is why they're slaughtering Christians, they're slaughtering secular Muslims across the Muslim world.

Pamela Geller

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

Cyprian

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

Steven Pinker

How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.

Thomas S. Monson

If the kids like it, my fans like it - whoever this music pertains to, if they like it, it's for them. That's what this art is for.

Rich the Kid

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

Paul Ricoeur

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

M. C. Escher

Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

James Dwight Dana

As it pertains to my black womanhood, there's just a lot of ground to cover. There's a lot of stuff to say.

Kelela

Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.

Eudora Welty

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.