Quotes About Not Following The Masses

#1. You must keep in mind that all of the world's religions are man-made, often as a mechanism to control and intimidate the masses into following the bidding of a few.

Elle Casey

#2. Thought
Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly
affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who
do not believe in men.

Walt Whitman

#3. Good manners require space and time.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#4. I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

Edward Brooke

#5. I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

Aaron Johnson

#6. I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. People can get used to almost anything.

Cathy Hapka

#8. If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

Hudson Taylor

#9. The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.

Sarah Dessen

#10. In the partnership of a pure, holy purpose it (money)seems almost omnipotent. But when it is allowed to grip both lines and whip, it drives a man at such a pace as to use up all his strength, and leave him utterly winded for anything else.

S.D. Gordon

#11. We can never have enough of that which we do not want.

Eric Hoffer

#12. Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

Jack Newfield

#13. I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Mark Twain

#14. The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

Raquel Cepeda

#15. But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

Maurice Jarre

#16. I reckon that being good is about the easiest thing in the world for a lazy man.

William Faulkner