Collectives Quotes - Page 25

• On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Men, Doe

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.349, Routledge

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• The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Important, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.349, Routledge

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• At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

  Matt Ridley

  Animal, Way, Humans

  Matt Ridley (2010). “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.

  Adrienne Rich

  Political, Challenges, Intellectual

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.

  Paul Tillich

  Men, Self, Years

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 117), 1952.

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• Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... A group, as such, has no rights.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Agreement, Individual Choice

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.385, Penguin

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• The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

  William Safire

  Different, News, Opinion

  1993 Of the so-called'silent majority'. Safire's New Political Dictionary.

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• Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Agreement, Challenges

  Barack Obama's comments during the press conference at the G20 summit in London, www.washingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• ...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.

  Carl Jung

  Knowing, Self, Collective Unconscious

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• A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.

  A. C. Cuza

  Blood, Class, Soul

  "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

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• Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.

  Harold Innis

  Memories, Writing, Collective Memory

  Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Country, Greatest Victory, Germany

  "The Soviet Union Since World War II" by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely, (p. 4), 1949.

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• The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.

  Ilana Mercer

  Stupid, Reality, Media

  "President Pinicchio's Growing Proboscis". www.wnd.com. October 31, 2013.

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• There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Country, Law, Play

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• The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from its independent thinkers: Striking all existing public and private debt from the books across the "entire planet"; elimination of all international borders; free college education; a guaranteed "living wage" for all regardless of employment; an end to free trade; trillions in additional spending for infrastructure and ecological restoration; and ending the fossil fuel economy.

  Mike Rosen

  Wall, Confused, Book

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• ... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Suffering, Patterns

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• The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Hypnosis, Genius

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2010

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• Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Hypnosis, Mind

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2010

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• Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Hands, Creating

  Errico Malatesta (1965). “Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas”

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• Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

  Hermann Hesse

  Doe, Violence, Firsts

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• I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

  Wole Soyinka

  Minorities, Definitions, Accepting

  Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo (2001). “Conversations with Wole Soyinka”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health at risk. Fundamentally, we believe that the protocol both will fail to significantly reduce the long-term risks posed by climate change and, in the short run, will seriously impede our ability to meet our energy needs and economic growth.

  Lawrence B. Lindsey

  Running, Believe, Environmental Health

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• The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.

  Saul Alinsky

  Capitalist Economy, Identity, Movement

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.27, Vintage

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• Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Wisdom, Two, Battle

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• No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Wisdom, Horse, Barns

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