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• The socialism I believe in isn't really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other, everyone helping each other, and everyone having a share of the rewards at the end of the day. That might be asking a lot, but it's the way I see football and the way I see life.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Believe, Successful

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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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• Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Hero, Collective Effort, Roles

  Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American women a different view of ourselves and our worlds

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Our World, Views

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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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• We chart delusions through collective agreement.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Agreement, Delusion

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.87, Macmillan

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• The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Home, Keys, Brain

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• What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

  Louise Leakey

  Writing, Brain, Language

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• Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

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  Ram Dass

  Fearless, Culture, Incredibles

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.109, Harmony

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• The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

  Ian Shapiro

  Design, Climate, Use

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• The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

  Donald Berwick

  Self, Holy Grail, United States

  "The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost" by Donald Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan and John Whittington in "Health Affairs", Volume 27, No. 3 (pp. 759-769), May/June 2008.

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• To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Media, Long, Giving

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.14, NYU Press

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• At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Suicide, Country, Survival

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• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Waiting, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.79, Vintage

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• I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

  Chad Hugo

  America, Disrespect, Trying

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• Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

  Joanna Russ

  Art, Tradition, Behinds

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• Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Intellectual, Deep Thought

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• Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

  Walter Mosley

  Freedom, Rights, Ability

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next?: A Memoir Toward World Peace”

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• Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

  Henry Giroux

  Cheating, Learning, School

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