Collectives Quotes - Page 4

• Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve

  Peter Fonda

  Fate, Remember, Members

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• In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

  Edward Bond

  Past, Literature, Goodness

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• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  L. Neil Smith

  States, Incapable, Corpses

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “Forge of the Elders”, p.194, Baen Books

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• Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

  Paul Ricoeur

  Destiny, Men, Differences

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• There is no such thing as collective guilt.

  Kurt Waldheim

  Guilt

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• We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Guilt

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  Omar Bongo

  Responsibility, Justice, Principles

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• Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Jobs, Rehabilitation, Consciousness

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

  Kathy Acker

  Mean, Hygiene, People

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• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Land, Tyrants, Thrones

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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• Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Liberty, Libertarian, Individualism

  "Authority and Religious Liberty". Address before the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C., archive.org. September 21, 1924.

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• The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Happiness, Wine

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• To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The Spirit which is within you is a collective being and once you are awakened into the light of Spirit, you become a collective being. That means, on your finger tips you can feel the centers of others also as you can feel yourself. By knowing yourself you know the self knowledge, the inner self knowledge and by knowing others you are in collective consciousness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Psychics, Mind

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• Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Strength, Peace, Differences

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• Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

  Mao Zedong

  Agriculture, Expansion, Revolution

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. Expected by whom? Of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Philosophy, Agency

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• What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Government, Law, Organization

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• Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Prayer, Believe, Support

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• It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Education, Support, Community

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together.

  Blaise Aguera y Arcas

  Memories, Technology, Collective Memory

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• The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

  H. G. Wells

  Teaching, Islamic, Order

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