„In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.“

„The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.“

—  Ezra Pound American Imagist poet and critic 1885 - 1972

„This is a painful bit of truth: Fascism, in the form of irresponsibility, is present in the masses of all countries, nations and races. Fascism is the result of thousands of years of warping of the human structure. It could have developed in any nation. It is not a specific German or Italian character trait. It works in every mortal.“

—  Wilhelm Reich, book The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Section 2 : The Biological Miscalculation in the Human Struggle for Freedom
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. 10 : Work Democracy

„This exhibition is a sum total of all my experiences and all my research.“

—  S. H. Raza Indian artist 1922 - 2016

On the exhibition of his 39 new paintings in Mumbai.

„There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and noninterfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. Principles never contradict principles.... The synergetic integral of the totality of principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans — in pure principle — we do not and never will know all the principles.“

—  Buckminster Fuller American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist 1895 - 1983

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

„Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.“

—  Махатма Ганди pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948

Young India (8 April 1926)
1920s

„Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction; from the point of view of the proletariat the difference between the types of reaction is meaningless.“

—  Leon Trotsky Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879 - 1940

What Next? (1932)

„We are all the sum total of our pasts, good and evil.“

—  Glen Cook, book She Is the Darkness

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 95 (p. 614)

„All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.“

—  Patrick Swift British artist 1927 - 1983

"Some Notes on Caravaggio" (Nimbus 1956).

„We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices…“

—  Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

Source: Crimini e misfatti

„An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.“

—  Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970

On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926), Ch. 4: Fear
1920s

„Religion…is a man's total reaction upon life.“

—  William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842 - 1910

Lecture II, "Circumscription of the Topic"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

„Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith. But faith is not the sum total of their impacts. It transcends every special impact as well as the totality of them and it has itself a decisive impact on each of them.“

—  Paul Tillich German-American theologian and philosopher 1886 - 1965

Dynamics of Faith (1957)

„Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i. e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i. e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world.“

—  Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924

„Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination.“

—  Michael Parenti American academic 1933

Table of Contents, Fascism
Blackshirts and Reds (1997)

„We know today that form is always the product of an inquisitorial process of matter – the specific reaction of matter when subjected to the terrible coercion of space choking it on all sides, pressing and squeezing it out, producing the swellings that burst form it life to the exact limits of the rigorous contours of its own originality of reaction.“

—  Salvador Dalí Spanish artist 1904 - 1989

Quote, in the 'Introduction' of The Secret Life of Salvador Dali - first publication in 1942 - Vision Press, London 1976, p. 2
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1941 - 1950

„The principal element of Suprematism in painting, as in architecture, is its liberation from all social or materialist tendencies. Through Suprematism, art comes into its pure and unpolluted form. It has acknowledged the decisive fact of the nonobjective character of sensibility. It is no longer concerned with illusion.“

—  Kazimir Malevich Russian and Soviet artist of polish descent 1878 - 1935

As quoted in Marc Chagall, – a Biography, Sidney Alexander, Cassell, London, 1978, p. 194
1921 - 1930

„All education which is in its kind complete and good, is the means of forming character, and of making useful men and women.“

—  George Long English classical scholar 1800 - 1879

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

„A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.“

—  Kurt Vonnegut, book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Opening line of novel.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)

„The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: — they acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced in His will in all things.“

—  Richard Cecil (clergyman) British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748 - 1810

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 435.