Quotes with mass-crime

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  • Earl Nightingale Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Malcolm X America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Ernest Renan As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Bill Lipinski Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Ian Mcewan By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Woody Allen Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Ann Druyan Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • V. Lindsay Change not the mass but change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
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  • Ban Ki-moon Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bob Barr Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bono Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • H.G. Wells Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Georges Bataille Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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