Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction.… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back… — W. Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they… — Michael Bergdahl Copy Share Image
Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society.… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort. — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call… — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort. — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is… — Jean-Michel Cousteau Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever:… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward. — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action. — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design… — Ian Shapiro Copy Share Image
We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep… — Chris Cannon Copy Share Image
Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
