Quotes About Groups

The central problem for human freedom is that groups that are well organized enough to defend themselves against others are well organized enough to oppress their own.

Hierarchical male groups are good at mustering on the street and running into gunfire--another important task--but terrible at creating alliances.

I went to boarding school and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Assimilation refers to the reduction of differences between ethnic groups over time.

Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.

But what are nations? What are these groups which are so familiar to us, and yet if we stop to think, so strange; which are as old as history ... what breaks the human race up into fragments so unlike one another, and yet each in its interior so monotonous?

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

There's always going to be cliques - everywhere you go, there's gonna be cliques; there's gonna be people that gravitate towards each other.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.

I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

The power of Bernie Sanders was not only in his email list. The centers of power were local groups that formed on Facebook and Reddit.

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.