The collective strengthens the individual.

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