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title: "6 Collective Society Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/the-idea-that-collective-society-should-take-hold-of-evil-and-set-it/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

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> [This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-henrik-clarke/this-kind-of-collective-society-giving-to-each-according-to-his-need/)

[John Henrik Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-henrik-clarke/)

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> [Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/independent-self-reliant-people-would-be-a-counterproductive/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/children-who-know-how-to-think-for-themselves-spoil-the-harmony-of/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-henrik-clarke/in-a-collective-society-everybody-s-business-is-everybody-s-business/)

[John Henrik Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-henrik-clarke/)

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> [I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/i-think-we-need-to-find-a-way-to-provide-people-with-a-reason-that/)

[Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/)

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