Collectives Quotes

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Ignorance, Majority Rule

  "Notes On Journalism". Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1926.

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• Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Evil, Humanity, Behavior

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• The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

  Sam Rayburn

  Real, Heart, Acting

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Unions, Lost, Bargaining

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

  David Letterman

  Change, Collective Unconscious, Justice

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• The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

  Marilyn Manson

  Disbelief, Antichrist, Anti Christ

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• Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Anger, Responsibility

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

  Harry S. Truman

  Education, Book, Reading

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• All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Religious, Race

  "Have You Learned The Most Important Lesson Of All?". Parade Magazine, www.thehypertexts.com. May 24, 1992.

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• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, War, Believe

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• I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

  Bob Black

  Travel, Adventure, Joy

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  Irving Kaufman

  Trust, History, Our Society

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• Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

  Henry Fuseli

  Nature, Essence, Ideas

  James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.495

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• Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve

  Peter Fonda

  Fate, Remember, Members

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• In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

  Edward Bond

  Past, Literature, Goodness

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• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  L. Neil Smith

  States, Incapable, Corpses

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “Forge of the Elders”, p.194, Baen Books

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• Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

  Paul Ricoeur

  Destiny, Men, Differences

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• There is no such thing as collective guilt.

  Kurt Waldheim

  Guilt

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• We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Guilt

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  Omar Bongo

  Responsibility, Justice, Principles

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• Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Jobs, Rehabilitation, Consciousness

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

  Kathy Acker

  Mean, Hygiene, People

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• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Land, Tyrants, Thrones

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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