Collectives Quotes - Page 24

• Collective crimes incriminate no one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Crime

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Moving, Differences

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• There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Individual, Dharma

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• Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity

  Anderson Silva

  Mma, Racism, Stupidity

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• Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

  Scott E. Page

  Differences, Progress, Doe

  Scott E. Page (2008). “The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.

  Eckhart Tolle

  World, Consciousness, Surface

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.224, Penguin

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• Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Memories, Paris, Nostalgia

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• Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. The primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Strong, Drama, Adventure

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter IX: "The Primitive and the Technical", 1929.

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• I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, Guilt

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us, those who love righteousness, to jump on the necks of the wicked. We prefer to have it attended to in a more dignified, impersonal way by Society as a whole.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Ideas, Evil, Wicked

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Errors, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.523, Penguin

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• Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

  Jacques Barzun

  Baseball, Play, Legs

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

  Simone Weil

  Taken, Humanity, Individual

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.154, Psychology Press

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• So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!

  Horace Mann

  Men, Class, Names

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.61

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• But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

  Philip Wylie

  Men, Blood, Brain

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans.

  Ilchi Lee

  Axes, World, Earth

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• It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Please Me, Bored, Floating

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• I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Truth, Thinking, Expression

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• Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.

  Errico Malatesta

  Military, Taken, Mean

  "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.

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• And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, People, Evil

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "The Hannity & Colmes Show", www.foxnews.com. November 12, 2008.

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• I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2008.

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• The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Laughter, And Love, Different

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "The Hannity & Colmes Show", www.foxnews.com. November 12, 2008.

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• And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).

  Guy Deutscher

  Animal, Vegetables, Two

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• A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

  Kalle Lasn

  Dream, Fashion, Philosophy

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• The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Errors, Together

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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