Collectives Quotes - Page 22

• Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Soul, Sainthood

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective context - which presupposes, of course, that words are used to convey information about the idea and the context. However, none of this means that pictures function as illustrations of an idea: ultimately, they are the idea. Nor is the verbal formulation of the idea a translation of the visual: it simply bears a certain resemblance to the meaning of the idea. It is an interpretation, literally a reflection.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Reflection

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• Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Writing, School

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.61, Routledge

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• Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, Fighting, Civilization

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• Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Loss, Garden, Gambling

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• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Skating On Thin Ice, World, Flu

  "Modern lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

  John Astin

  World, Normal, Mental Illness

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• I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Memories, Self, Collective Memory

  "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

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• We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

  Greil Marcus

  Music, Song, Mean

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.93, Penguin

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• Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

  Chuck D

  Real, People, Bigger

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

  Ty Burrell

  Goal, Problem, Humans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

  Jacques Delors

  Thinking, People, Growth

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• The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

  Jacques Delors

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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• It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.

  David Graeber

  Country, Thinking, Decision

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• Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

  Jay Griffiths

  Grace, Timing, Individual

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

  Dennis Miller

  America, Collective Unconscious, Dressing Up

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• I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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• In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Self, Agony

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• The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Opportunity, Diversity

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Collective Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted in two basic beliefs. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Circles

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• Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Country, Iran, World

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• If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  People, Choices, Together

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• And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.

  James P. Hoffa

  Jobs, Mistake, People

  "CNN's John King Interviews Hoffa Without Asking About 'Son of a B---hes' Remark". bash.newsbusters.org. September 6, 2011.

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• Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance.

  Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

  Messages, Care, Remember

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