Famous quotes containing the words equal, mass and/or number:
“A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“My idea is that the world outside—the so-called modern world—can only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive instinct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivors—the one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poets—and to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)