Collectives Quotes - Page 33

• We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Would Be, Levels

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• ...the priority of the Democrats and Republicans...is to preserve...power when [they have] it, and to gain power when [they do not]. [Their] collective priority...is to make sure that, together, they control the electoral process and under no circumstances allow an independent or third party to infringe on their exclusive franchise.

  Jesse Ventura

  Party, Independent, Priorities

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• We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

  Nelson Mandela

  Tolerance, Democracy, Nurture

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• Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Jobs, Men, Understanding

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• Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Proxy

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

  F. David Mathews

  Decision, Political, Speech

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• Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

  Pierre Boulez

  Hysteria, Magic, Should

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• I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

  Peter Senge

  Leader, Paradox, Embrace

  "Changing How We Work Together". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 2001.

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• Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Revealing, Consumerism

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• We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Pain, Gdp

  "Pain and Gain" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. March 6, 2014.

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• The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart...Not much time is needed...(the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Heart, Hatred

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• Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

  Bob Newhart

  Believe, Thinking, Class

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• Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.

  Richard Jeni

  Animal, Live In The Moment, Littles

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• The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Real, Mistake, Men

  "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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• You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

  Brett Morgen

  Singing, Cobain

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very much like the tradition of a hired man in any world-class poem. That's what I was, a hired man. I was working for a collective farm.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Men, Class, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Reality, Technique, Photographer

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• I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.

  Christopher Titus

  Moving, Thinking, Psychosis

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.

  Gilles Peress

  Memories, Thinking, Collective Memory

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• I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

  Shimon Attie

  Community, Use, Whispering

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• Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Photography, Artist, Practice

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• The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. Indeed, the only hope of humanity lies in the fact that, as our spiritual dimension has been formed, so it also can be transformed.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

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• The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.

  Derrick Jensen

  Spring, Giving, Long

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.104, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Names, Bears

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• Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Hallucinations, Modern, Linear

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