Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or mass:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator—the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)