Collectives Quotes - Page 11

• Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.

  Scott Walker

  Couple, Use, Unions

  "Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union-Busting Bill in Wisconsin" by Mary Bottari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2014.

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• What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

  John Mayer

  Single Mom, Struggle, America

  "John Mayer apologises after using N-word in Playboy interview" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

  Robin Cook

  Military, Responsibility, Agreement

  "Cook resigns from cabinet over Iraq" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2003.

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• We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Play, Cities, People

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• The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction.

  Che Guevara

  Mistake, Elements, Enthusiasm

  "Socialism and Man in Cuba". www.marxists.org. March 12, 1965.

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• My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Crazy, Tragedy, Generations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Cinema is a wonderful art form for talking about loneliness. We can experience films together with other people. It can be a collective experience of loneliness. We're alone in the dark of the theater, but with other people.

  Joachim Trier

  Art, Loneliness, Dark

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.

  Eavan Boland

  Responsibility, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Groups, Individual

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

  Lewis Schiff

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When one person is having a low energy day, the other can step it up. There's a collective amount of energy, and we're each on different levels each day.

  Mamrie Hart

  Energy, Different, Each Day

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these big final ends to tell us what we ought to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Finals, Generations, Use

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Letting Go, Block, Race

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Support, Needs

  Source: time.com

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• In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate the "green virtues" which includes the virtue of cooperativeness. This would not bring about the best possible world but it would set us on the path of making it better.

  Dale Jamieson

  Heart, Environmental, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional structures that support them are now relegated to the imperatives of privatization, deregulation, flexibility and short-term profits.

  Henry Giroux

  Long, People, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare programs, the privatization of public goods and an appeal to individual accountability as a substitute for social responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Accountability, Deregulation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective imagination paralyzed by the racism of a white supremacist culture they can only view them as a dangerous nightmare.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Views, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative communities, autonomous forms of worker control, collective forms of health care, models of direct democracy and emancipatory modes of education.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, Organization, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

  Henry Giroux

  Good Life, Struggle, Vision

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I very much believe in the collective work and the team dynamic.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Team, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Constructive criticism is legitimate, but when it escalates to vitriol, it affects us all, because celebrities and influencers are part of the collective consciousness.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Criticism, Consciousness, Constructive

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Everybody has an image of [princess Margaret], to a certain extent. But I felt it would have been harder if we were playing them as they are now. In a way, I don't know how much of a living memory we as a collective have of them in the '50s, when Margaret was 21 and this sort of Elizabeth Taylor. You don't think of your grandparents as being teenagers. You just can't - your brain just can't go there!

  Vanessa Kirby

  Memories, Teenager, Princess

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Suicidal, Collective Effort

  Source: ilga.org

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• It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

  Dar Williams

  Children, Slavery, Child Labor

  Source: www.progressive.org

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