Collectives Quotes - Page 37

• We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Dollars, Rising, Debt

  "Divine Debt Trumps All" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 20, 2009.

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• Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Expectations, Assuming, Granted

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• Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Rights, Individual

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.191, Penguin

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• Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

  Joel Miller

  Player, Reality, Government

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• I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Art, School, Play

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• Terrorism attacks peoples' trust in the system of their state. There is protection, but only if there is collective action and collective understanding about how to really deal with this phenomenon.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Understanding, Action, Protection

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind: they have convinced us that mass homogeneity is more essential for the betterment of society than is individual initiative, and they have adorned this dubious assumption with assurances that by leveling all distinctions between human beings, collective peace and unity will result as a matter of course, just as water runs downhill or the cart follows the ox.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  Running, Rights, Justice

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• Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Break Through, Layers, Messages

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.179, Penguin

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• The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.

  Terence McKenna

  Brain, Internet, Domain

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• 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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