Mass Movement Quotes

#1. Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

Rosamond Lehmann

#3. It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.

Jimi Hendrix

#4. All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

Eric Hoffer

#5. If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.

Patrick Cockburn

#7. One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

Wole Soyinka

#8. Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."

Eric Hoffer

#9. People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer

#10. The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

Eric Hoffer

#11. M-governance is empowered governance. It has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. It puts governance into everyone's reach. It puts governance in your hands 24/7.

Narendra Modi

#12. Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

Adam Michnik

#13. But then anytime you join in a mass movement you're going to find yourself standing alongside idiots. One reason people go to mass rallies is to become stupider and surer of themselves than they are when they're alone.

Tim Kreider

#14. It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

Eric Hoffer

#15. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

Eric Hoffer

#16. Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

Narendra Modi

#17. Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.

James A.C. Brown

#18. So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist ... If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.

Thomas L. Friedman

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

Isabel Briggs Myers

#20. The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.

Eric Hoffer

#21. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

Eric Hoffer

#22. The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass movement of solidarity, with the promise of emancipation at the end. My father's grievances were real and well founded. But his solutions were dreams.

Roger Scruton

#23. It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Eric Hoffer

#24. Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.

Narendra Modi

#25. This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people ... The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#26. The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

Eric Hoffer

#27. Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#28. I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

Richard Dawkins

#29. My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.

Catherine Hicks

#30. The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.

Friedrich Engels

#32. To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy's center of gravity

Carl Von Clausewitz

#33. This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

Kenny Loggins

#34. If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.

Eric Hoffer

#35. Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

Mao Zedong

#36. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Eric Hoffer

#37. There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Bell Hooks

#38. Could we have seen this efflorescence of stupidity? Yes, because every mass political movement unleashes the worst in human behaviour and admires it. For a time at least.

Doris Lessing

#39. Weight Weight is an implied, if not critical, concept in design and animation. How you show an object in motion greatly affects its weight and therefore its believability. Weight in animation is a perception of mass. An object's movement, how it reacts in motion, and how it reacts to other objects

Dariush Derakhshani

#40. We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

Jeremy Corbyn

#41. Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

Huey Newton

#42. If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

Wilhelm Reich

#43. The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

Joe Slovo

#44. I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

Brittany Maynard

#45. Celerity: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) increasing the mobility or swiftness of movement

Alex Lane

#46. The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#47. I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

Larry Fitzgerald

#48. The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#49. The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya, and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country.

Yitzhak Shamir

#50. One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day.

Stanley Nelson Jr.

#51. Mass incarceration - not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement - is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement

Michelle Alexander

#52. The moon ... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body.

Johannes Kepler

#53. Do you know why I am unstoppable? It is because I decide my stopping line.

~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#54. All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.

Mahmoud Abbas

#55. Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Rebecca Harding Davis