Collectives Quotes - Page 12

• The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.

  Pauline Oliveros

  San Francisco, Tape, Kind

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.

  Noam Chomsky

  Army, Anarchist, Communist

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Europe, Giving, Needs

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

  Cleve Jones

  Agreement, Talking, People

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Real, Race

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?

  Malcolm X

  Country, Answers, Way

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Collective Unconscious, Males, Domination

  "On male domination" by Pierre Bourdieu, mondediplo.com. October 1998.

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• Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.

  Nhat Hanh

  Determination, Mean, Meat Industry

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• There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.

  David Abram

  Hero, Names, Broken

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• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eight, Tea, Pillars

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• Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie." The other girls let out a collective gasp. My pulse quickened from "slow walk" to "fifty-meter-dash." I turned and found that-yes, indeed-the god Anubis had crashed our dance.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Voice, Pulse

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• I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Strong, Heat Of The Sun

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing is like doing a bunch of push-ups. Every individual push-up is not the important thing. On Tuesday you're going to think, "Is it really important that I do it today?" No, but the collective impact is. If you write every day, you will improve.

  N.D. Wilson

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• Science attacks our most cherished opinions. Opinions which come straight from our collective gut. Oh, wait, according to gastroenterologists, the only thing that comes from the gut is waste left from the digestion of food. That’s right, “waste.” I guess that means that scientists literally think our opinions should be flushed down the toilet!

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Thinking, Waiting

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• That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

  David Benioff

  Home, Past, Eggs

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• Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

  Aldous Huxley

  Insanity, Individual, Immune

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• Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.

  Maria Semple

  Wall, Dark, Years

  "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?". Book by Maria Semple, 2012.

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• In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Rights, Labor Laws

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• We shouldn’t,” protested Isabelle. “The Clave has a plan.” “The Clave has the collective intelligence of a pineapple,” said Jace. Alec blinked up at them. “Jace is right.” Isabelle turned on her brother. “What do you know? You weren’t even paying attention.” “I was,” Alec said, injured. “I said Jace was right.” “Yeah, but there’s like a 90% chance of me being right most of the time, so that’s not proof you were listening,” said Jace. “That’s just a good guess.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Listening, Pineapples

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• ‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

  Kevin Kelly

  Fashion, Taken, Reflection

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.70, Basic Books

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• Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Past, Neurosis, Safe

  "Tom Hiddleston: 'I never wanted to be the go-to guy for tails and waistcoats'" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2011.

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• Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.

  Richelle Mead

  Kids, Years, Brain

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.145, Penguin

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• Companies that recognize the need to be creative about their businesses are going to pursue this creative thinking with us or without us. It's our collective responsibility, our collective future to make sure they choose to do it with us.

  Bob Schmetterer

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Believe, Men

  "Credo". Book by Erich Fromm, 1965.

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