Top 1200 Mass Consumption Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

Investigative journalism is never mass-based; it's very focused, and you want people who are passionate about it to take it.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

Mass market paperback thrillers are a dime a dozen. The trick is to find something that actually sticks to the ribs.

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.

Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

I eat around 6 handfuls of 65 percent and up cocoa mass content chocolate each day.

For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.

Going out with friends for a nice dinner and then attending the midnight mass are some of the memories I cherish.

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them boost growth and job creation by improving their competitiveness and connecting to international markets.

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public consumption.

In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

If a hit song comes on in a theater, the mass audience get so excited they throw money, just out of excitement.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

Interestingly, despite being based on a real encounter, 'Batla House' has a strong mass appeal to it too.

The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.

Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.

Negative effects on the economy were covered up with a flood of liquidity from the Fed. That,plus lax regulation, led to a housing bubble, a consumption boom - but we were living on borrowed money. It was inevitable that there would be a day of reckoning, and it has now come. We will be paying the costs "with interest".

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.