Collectives Quotes - Page 5

• The need of the hour is that your life should be revolutionised.
  The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one.
  The change should be concerning your belief, your morals, your actions, your dealings, your decisions, and your efforts.
  Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Mean

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Insanity, Madness

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• Don't travel alone....meet up with others who are traveling also on the path of change, you can learn from each other a lot and together carry more learning experiences (social learning and collective intelligence). -Nadia Gabriela Dresscher

  Lambert of Maastricht

  Change, Together, Path

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• Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

  Craig Venter

  Information, Medical, Privacy

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• Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

  John Stuart Mackenzie

  Democracy, Culture, Absence

  "An Introduction to Social Philosophy". Book by John Stuart Mackenzie (p. 383), 1895.

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• Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.

  Brian Barry

  Two, Missing, Would Be

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• The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only way to save an economy brought to its knees by their collective actions and the banking system they represent was to, well, no, surely not.. hand trillions of taxpayer-borrowed dollars to the Rothschild-controlled banks and insurance companies like CitiGroup, J. P. Morgan, AIG and a long list of others.

  David Icke

  Hands, Long, Way

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• Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what has variously been called collective consciousness or, as theologians have termed it, the Holy Spirit.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Science, May, Spirituality

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Attitude, Believe

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• We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

  Nigel Farage

  Mistake, Stupid, May

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• We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Opportunity, Challenges, Progress

  "Big Idea 2014: The Year for Climate Action" by Ban Ki-moon, www.un.org. December 10, 2013.

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• The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Government, Order, Democracy

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• Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the choice will depend on our collective world behavior over the next fifty years. Whichever option is chosen, it will not be the end of history, but in a real sense its beginning. The human social world is still very young in cosmological time. In 2050 or 2100, when we look back at capitalist civilization, what will we think?

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Real, Thinking, Years

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• There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.

  Kristen Bell

  Issues, Water, Choices

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• Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.

  David Korten

  Inspiring, Real, Simple

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• To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

  Hermann Hesse

  Collective Unconscious, Order, Confusion

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• If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Giving, Energy

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.105

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• That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife a collective piece of art. ... [Composing] is not a job for me. And that explains why I never stop. Even though it's tough on your body and your brain and the sacrifices you have to make, what can I do? I'm passionate about it so I never stop.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Music, Art, Jobs

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• I believe that people would be happier sharing things and being much more of a collective rather than working from these neo-liberal ideas of just looking after yourself. I think people need each other.

  Karin Dreijer Andersson

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Knife". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 26, 2013.

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• To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Unions, Corporations

  "Majority Report", June 3, 2005.

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• Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

  Henry Rollins

  Touching, Moments, Worth Living

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

  Charlie Daniels

  America, People, Evil

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• The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.

  John Astin

  Enemy, Becoming, Aberration

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• Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Poison, Abnormal, Problem

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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