Collectives Quotes - Page 39

• Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Collective Good, Humans

  "Global Warming and the Meaning of Doom" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Three, Levels

  "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2010.

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• The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Arrogance, Nasty

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• We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Reflection, Self

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Years, Joy

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• Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Ignorance, Wings

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

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• We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Roots, Energy

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Agriculture, Political Revolution, Humanity

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• People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Jail, People

  "Rev. Jackson opens up about son" by Katie Glueck, www.politico.com. August 17, 2012.

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• People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.

  Ashton Kutcher

  People, Today, Way

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• Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Seductive, Way, Problem

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• Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Dollars, Action

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. Junt 7, 2011.

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• Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Enlightenment, Strive

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

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• Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Numbers, Unions, Versus

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• The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

  Rand Paul

  War, Abiding, Lessons

  Rand Paul's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Forida, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

  Zachary Quinto

  Government, Culture, World

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

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• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Memories, Collective Memory

  Tariq Ramadan (2012). “Islam and the Arab Awakening”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

  John C. Reilly

  Believe, Character, Play

  "Comic-Con: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman and Rich Moore Talk WRECK-IT RALPH, Vintage Video Games and Getting the Rights to Game Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 13, 2012.

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• God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Europe, Blind Spots, Intellectual

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Biblical, America, Should Have

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Joy, Mind

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• Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

  Will Self

  Comfort, Crowds, Strange

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• The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  New York, Memories, Past

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• With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

  Andrew Shue

  Mom, New Ventures, Empowering

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• If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Climate, Looks

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.316, Princeton University Press

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