Collectives Quote by D. H. Lawrence

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as…

— Immanuel Kant

“To organize society in such a manner that every individual, man or woman, should find, upon entering life, approximately equal means for the development…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must…

— Dorothy Day

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with…

— Erich Fromm

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

“All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a…

— Coleman Dowell

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had…

— Vilfredo Pareto

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

— Albert Camus