Famous quotes containing the words masters of the, masters of, masters and/or universe:
“The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Now, out of my way, you masters of a thousand fleas. Allah be with you, but I doubt it.”
—Miles Malleson (18881969)
“We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited.... It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (18671945)