Collective Quotes

723 Collective quotes by 529 unique authors

There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our… — Jack Layton
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective. — Moshe Dayan
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is… — John Stuart Mill
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious. — Lewis Thomas
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past,… — Nelson Mandela
Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything… — Anthony Burgess
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in… — Robert J. Sawyer
I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and… — John S. Pistole
There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can… — Clay Shirky
A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of… — Frederick Lenz
I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all… — Joe Lieberman
You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time. — Julie Mehretu
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty… — Haile Selassie
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. — Christopher Lasch
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite… — Bertrand Russell
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of… — Theodore Dalrymple
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism,… — Zygmunt Bauman
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. — John Astin
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. — Mahmoud Darwish
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call… — Greil Marcus
I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. — Elia Kazan
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods -… — Chuck D
There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point. — Ty Burrell

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