Collective Quotes

723 Collective quotes by 529 unique authors

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the… — Joseph Stalin
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get… — Rob Brezsny
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — John Stuart Mill
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a… — Laurens van der Post
I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually… — Bob Geldof
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere… — Carl Jung
You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who… — Ezra Taft Benson
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth… — Daniel Kahneman
Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. — Tony Judt
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go… — Adrienne Rich
The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement… — H.G. Wells
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic… — H.G. Wells
The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment.… — Dilma Rousseff
Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. — L. Neil Smith
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the… — Alva Myrdal
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society’s… — Howard Lyman
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians. — John P. Wheeler III
I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one… — Jacqueline Novogratz
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront… — Barack Obama
There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. — Jaime Lerner
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening. — Stephen Covey
Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions. — Ludwig von Mises
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It… — Emile Durkheim
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions… — Pope Pius XII

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