Collectives Quotes - Page 40

• Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Vision, Conscious

  "Sylvester Stallone on Art, Movies and Playing Rocky Again". Interview with Alexandra Cheney, blogs.wsj.com. November 07, 2013.

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• In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Heart, Done

  "State of the Unions". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

  Lewis Thomas

  Communication, Technology, People

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• Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cells, People, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.17, New World Library

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• I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

  Pharrell Williams

  Thinking, Trends, Conscious

  "Pharrell Williams on motivation, his book and working with Miley". Interview with Tahajah Samuels, www.cnn.com. November 12, 2012.

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• Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

  James Wolcott

  Men, Mad, Iconography

  "Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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• Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Pressure, Action

  "The Digital Dictatorship". www.wsj.com. February 20, 2010.

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• All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Narcissism, Kind, Understood

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.

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• With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Writing, Night, Giving

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Reality is just a collective hunch.

  Jane Wagner

  Reality, Hunches

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• Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Party, Reality

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.189, Arcturus Publishing

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• A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Numbers, Creative, Mind

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.102, Penguin

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• Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Collective Unconscious

  "Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.

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• Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.

  Norah Vincent

  Men, Female, Different

  Norah Vincent (2006). “Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man”, p.118, Penguin

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• Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Stress, People

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.78, Random House

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• She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

  Pat Conroy

  Age, Prison, Treacherous

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, War, Home

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Environmental

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• Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Believe, Insomnia, Race

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Lethem from Jul 01, 2016

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• Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Errors, Work Out

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• The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Dream, Collective Effort

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Past, Collective Memory

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

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• No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Country, Single Person

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• All of us are taking the night off," Wrath said abruptly. "We need some regroup time." Rhage snorted from across the table. "You're not going to make us play Monopoly again, are you?" Yup." A collective groan rose up from the Brotherhood, one that Wrath ignored. "Right after dinner.

  J.R. Ward

  Night, Wrath, Play

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.464, Penguin

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• We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our plates. This doesn't require that we pretend we are going to have a collective agreement. However strong our intuitions are about what's right for us personally and even about what's right for others, we all know in advance that our positions will clash with those of our neighbors. What do we do with that most inevitable reality? Drop the conversation, or find a way to reframe it?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Strong, Reality, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010.

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