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Quotes About Groups

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.
~ Sasha Grey
Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
~ Cathy Guisewite
As professionals began to understand codependency better, more groups of people appeared to have it: adult children of alcoholics; people in relationships with emotionally or mentally disturbed persons; people whose partners had chronic illnesses;
~ Melody Beattie
Naming oppressive realities, in and of itself, has not brought about the kinds of changes for oppressed groups that it can for more privileged groups, who command a different quality of attention.
~ bell hooks
The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of sense of grounding even if it is not informed by shared circumstance.
~ bell hooks
We cannot fully create effective movements for social change if individuals struggling for that change are not also self-actualized or working towards that end. When wounded individuals come together in groups to make change our collective struggle it is often undermined by all that has not been dealt with emotionally.
~ bell hooks
all. Unfortunately, polarizing influences—such as unions that want what they want, gay rights groups, isolationists, and others who cannot or will not consider the opinions of others—have become stronger in recent years, robbing from the pool of moderate legislators and increasing the numbers
~ Ben Carson
I do not believe that the founding fathers intended for a fourth branch of government to emerge — that of special interest groups.
~ Ben Carson
The world at present is full of angry self-centred groups, each incapable of viewing human life as a whole, each willing to destroy civilization rather than yield an inch
~ Bertrand Russell
In international affairs the same formula of federalism will apply: self-determination for every group in regard to matters which concern it much more vitally than they concern others, and government by a neutral authority embracing rival groups in all matters in which conflicting interests of groups come into play.
~ Bertrand Russell
By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.
~ Amity Shlaes
That fearsome emotion that animates the female in all-female groups (called outere in Amazon and gynekophoitos in Greek)
~ Steven Pressfield
Special interest groups are like terrorists: they test for weakness and exploit fear.
~ Stuart Stevens
The first temperance groups were secular and calm. Their purpose was to help men hang on to their paychecks and their dignity. But America is not a calm nation.
~ Susan Cheever
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Groups don't really impact a local church until they become part of a church's culture. And that begins with senior leadership.
~ Josh Hunt
I think, a lot of times, that's why groups break-up, because people lose their individuality.
~ Howie Dorough
What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.
~ Mark Pagel
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
~ E. O. Wilson
I love people; don't get me wrong. Individually, I love that interaction between people, and I'm not an ogre or something; but huge crowds of people, huge groups of people who seemingly have endless access to you - as I get older, I'm not really into that.
~ Devin Townsend
Some of the vamps formed into smaller groups, to chat or plot or whatever vamps did at undead nonfunerals. Oddly, they talked about the stock market and the latest flare-up in the Middle East, like any well-educated group of humans. It was almost as disorienting as hearing them quote Jesus. Then,
~ Faith Hunter
Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force – for the same reason – cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.
~ Frederic Bastiat
They need only to give up the idea of forcing us to acquiesce to their groups and series, their socialized projects, their free- credit banks, their Graeco-Roman concept of morality, and their commercial regulations. I ask
~ Frederic Bastiat
Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
~ Bob McDonnell