Collectives Quote by Hermann Hesse

“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.”

— Azar Nafisi

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

— Norman Cousins

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

— Norman Cousins

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both…

— Barbara Deming

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

— Barbara Deming

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and…

— Hannah Arendt

“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first, of those…

— Robert A. Nisbet

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

— James Gilligan

“Group dynamics and the decision to sacrifice the individual for the group are the first steps in a march down the road to Thought…

— Tammy Bruce

“Even now, and you can look at me: Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. —POL POT The eradication of conscience is…

— Stanley Bing

“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.”

— Eckhart Tolle