Collectives Quotes - Page 34

• It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Genius, Movement, Patterns

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• But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

  Naomi Klein

  Needs, Denial, Clear

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Action, Opinion, Theory

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.120, Modern Library

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• The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Effort, Eras, Joints

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and everyone really had a greater sense of how to write for this band -- not only for this particular instrumentation, but for these particular players. Each year, the reality is getting closer to the ideal of a collective.

  Joshua Redman

  Writing, Player, Reality

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• I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science.

  Roger Helmer

  Believe, Hysteria, Kind

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• When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.

  Laurie Foos

  Thinking, Imagination, Film

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes all we need is only listening to an inner voice and remaining human in a very personal way. But even if it is a personal way, it's still a very valid way - maybe the most valid way. It doesn't have to be a collective experience or someone telling you what to do. The most sacred human experience can be a very personal one.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Voice, Listening, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

  David Simon

  America, Proof, Response

  Source: progressive.org

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• I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed.

  Annie Lennox

  Voice, Rights, People

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• Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).

  Michael Snow

  Individuality, Sound, Variation

  Michael Snow, Louise Dompierre (2010). “The Collected Writings of Michael Snow”, p.189, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Men, Analysis

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.154, Psychology Press

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• The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Tragedy, May, Realizing

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• God is the collective ego of the world

  Rajneesh

  Ego, World

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• There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Names, Principles, Invisible

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• Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch.

  Lily Tomlin

  Reality, Hunches

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• The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Justice, Psychology, Democracy

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Liberty

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• When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all the laws of nature. This experience alone will transform our collective reality - our human civilization to one of unity, peace, and harmony.

  John Hagelin

  Reality, Law, Civilization

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

  John Hagelin

  Ignorance, Light, Darkness

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the late Conservative years - the end of Thatcher/start of Major and certainly continued throughout New Labour and continuing now - that new is necessarily better, so there is this neophilia which isn't the vanguard of progress, it's just the vanguard of the construction industry enjoying itself.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, Construction Industry, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

  Roddy Woomble

  Artist, Scotland, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Strong, Two, Drawing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Junk, Privacy, Socialism

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Climate, Denial, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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