Collectives Quotes - Page 28

• Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The role of journalists and corporates in combating climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Believe, School

  "AFTER THE ATTACKS: FINDING FAULT; U.S. 'Secular' Groups Set Tone For Terror Attacks, Falwell Says" by Gustav Niebuhr, www.nytimes.com. September 14, 2001.

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• Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

  Narendra Modi

  Collective Effort, Individual Effort, Excellence

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• In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Individual Happiness, Iron

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism.

  Walter Benjamin

  Attitude, Mean, Giving

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• Global challenges require collective responses.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Challenges, Response

  www.cfr.org. September 26, 2013.

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• An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny.

  Steven Pinker

  Events, Narrative, Way

  "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". Book by Steven Pinker, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into the human gene pool. And while it is quite obvious to many that “You create your reality”, the vast majority of humans still need to be awakened from the unconsciously controlled trance of powerlessness that they voluntarily took on.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.22, New World Library

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• Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Organization, Rights, Views

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• All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Individuality, Enemy

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.

  Al Gore

  Space, Scary, Identity

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• Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Important, Patterns

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• They call it collective energy. It's that same feeling that you get when you meditate amongst a ton of people. What actually makes the festival feel so special is that while you're watching a band or an artist, you're standing there, kind of feeling the same feeling with so many people in such a small space and that gives you collective energy. It's that kind of strange feeling in which you almost feel people breathing.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Artist, Breathing, Space

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

  John le Carre

  Spy, World, Couches

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• There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

  Winston Churchill

  Sheep, Way, Flocks

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• Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

  Max Lerner

  Ignorance, Men, Civilization

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• ... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

  Adrienne Rich

  Spiritual, Aquifers, Voice

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Yet the companions of the Muses
  will keep their collective nose in my books
  And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Data, Historical

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, New Orleans, Expression

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• Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.

  Chris Corrigan

  Personal Transformation, Transformation

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• Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  Robert Hewison

  Friends, Running, Failure

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• It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

  Joyce Appleby

  Passion, Past, Diversity

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• We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.

  Richard Louv

  Family, Father, Real

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

  Russell Brand

  Corporations, Given, Democratic

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.341, Random House

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• Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

  George Packer

  Class, Ambitious, Sap

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