Collectives Quotes - Page 37

• I have gained and sustained my optimism as a humble student of our living universe, our living Earth, which clearly shows us the way out of our adolescent crisis into a mature global future. The sooner we create our vision of all we desire, set our intention to implement it together, and put our individual capacities into collective action, the greater our chances of success.

  Elisabet Sahtouris

  Women, Humble, Optimism

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• The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.

  Reg Revans

  Inspirational, Lying, Successful

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• Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Home, Commitment, Space

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• When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

  Dolores Huerta

  People, Together, Groups

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Race, White

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Moving forward, the best way is going to be something that is going to be a collective decision, that is made, of course, with President-elect [Donald] Trump having the primary say as to how to move forward. But all those opinions will be in the room.

  Reince Priebus

  Moving, Decision, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? I have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Rights, Spy

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there was no need for them to set up other structures to deal with the land issues.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Rights, Land

  Source: www.gov.za

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• This is community land that belongs to particular clans, and therefore, it must go back and its administration and the determination as to what to do, must rest in the hand of the communities. That is why you have these committees, among whose members, of course, they will be traditional leaders. You will have these collectives, which must then deal with the land, the issue of communal rights.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Determination, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and live the good life." King's dream was fundamentally Christian. His commitment to radical love had everything to do with his commitment to Jesus of Nazareth, and his dream had everything to do with community, with a "we" consciousness that included poor and working people around the world, not just black people.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Dream, Jesus

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Spring, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You had blacks and whites coming together and sacrificing, organizing and mobilizing the world. That's the first time we've had collective action put at the center of any kind of portrayal of Martin King on the screen.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Sacrifice, Humanity

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Emotion, Incredibles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures to deny the rights of the individual instead of reconciling the rights of the individual with the collective, I would definitely stand completely on the side of the individualist who is trying to rescue above all that most precious thing that makes us human - consciousness and personality.

  Murray Bookchin

  Rights, Names, Personality

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're all anarchists: you're an anarcho-syndicalist; you're an anarcho-communist; you're an anarcho-individualist.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Sitting Down, Down And

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• I'm always gratified when I check something I've made up and discover that I've gotten it right. How can we imagine something that turns out to be true? How can we know things we couldn't possibly know? It makes me wonder about the existence of a collective unconscious.

  Janet Fitch

  Collective Unconscious, Wonder, Imagine

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but I think it's absolutely necessary for the leadership to be united in order to make the revolution effective.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations.

  George Harrison

  Ignorance, Soul, Together

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• I do not believe in collective guilt.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Guilt

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.

  Hilary Mantel

  Play, Community, Enemy

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Spiritual, Animal, World

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Children, Survival, Adults

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Struggle, Accomplishment, Excellence

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• I always thought it was due to liberals are about the collective whereas conservatives are more about individual liberty and responsibility. So it kind of makes sense that liberals are more prone to rally around each other no matter what. It's kind of a hive mind-set.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Responsibility, Mind, Liberty

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Stop and think of what happened in America. The melting pot, yeah, it happened. Stop and think of what happened, from the first days of the founding. You have to go back to the Pilgrims. You have to include the Pilgrims in the founding. Why they came. What they learned on the way. What they learned after they got here. The Pilgrims, like everybody else, tried to establish a socialist collective. Bombed out. Didn't work. We know this, the governor wrote about it himself, William Bradford.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, America, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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