Never underestimate the collective stupidity of the masses.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us…

— Trofim Lysenko

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…

— Ayn Rand

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together,…

— Ivan Krastev

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

— Jonathan Zittrain

We do not focus test our games and never had. People ask why we don't, and I say, 'I have so many opinions in…

— Todd Howard

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective. Nothing passes…

— Fernando Pessoa

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . .…

— Carl Jung

I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason…

— Bertie Carvel

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

— Frantz Fanon

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…

— Jerry Saltz

“Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're…

— Suzanne Collins

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

— Gloria Steinem

“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which…

— Michael Burawoy

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

— Cate Blanchett