Famous quotes containing the words equal, mass and/or number:
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate”
—Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)