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Quotes About Groups

Decisions which affect the individual's health and life should not be forced upon him by self-appointed groups of experts who are not even in a position to take responsibility for their errors.
~ Harris Coulter
Radical groups with distant goals could find comfort in an isolated purity, while those who tasted success saw the value of accommodating the views of others.
~ Lawrence Freedman
Why do the wicked always form groups, whereas the righteous do not? Because the wicked, walking in darkness, need company, but the righteous, who live in the light, do not fear being alone.
~ Leo Rosten
The proliferation of these self-conscious groups, some of which (such as seniors-only enclaves) virtually excluded others, added to a perception by the early 1970s that the United States was becoming both a claimant society and an ever more openly balkanized culture.
~ James T. Patterson
repression of white ethnic groups; again, most textbooks blame the people
~ James W. Loewen
Being an introvert really means you recharge your batteries by being alone. You can be sociable, and outgoing and enjoy people, but only for limited amounts of time. Large groups and lots of stimulation exhaust an introvert. Literally, for every hour spent at a party, an introvert will need two hours on their own." "I'm
~ Jane Green
Being an introvert really means you recharge your batteries by being alone. You can be sociable, and outgoing and enjoy people, but only for limited amounts of time. Large groups and lots of stimulation exhaust an introvert.
~ Jane Green
Most men, in fact, were competent in groups that mimicked the playground, incompetent in groups that mimicked the family; that was why all-male committees ran the most smoothly.
~ Jane Smiley
And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That's what knitting groups and sewing groups were for, wasn't it? Commiserating about marriage.
~ Jane Smiley
If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand.
~ John Prendergast
The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.
~ Eric Schlosser
The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.
~ Mitchell Baker
I have been pleased to receive petitions from groups that seek a range of new gun control measures and groups and individuals who believe additional laws are unnecessary or unwise.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
~ Vicki Lawrence
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.
~ James Gunn
I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.
~ Michael T. Flynn
One can also use compactifications to view the continuous as the limit of the discrete: for instance, it is possible to compactify the sequence / 2,/ 3,/ 4, . . . of cyclic groups in such a way that their limit is the circle group = /.
~ Timothy Gowers
Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it. Violent right-wing groups, such as the Iron Guard in interwar Romania or the Arrow Cross in interwar Hungary, intimidated their rivals.
~ Timothy Snyder
But one element of freedom is the choice of associates, and one defense of freedom is the activity of groups to sustain their members. This is why we should engage in activities that are of interest to us, our friends, our families. These need not be expressly political: Václav Havel, the Czech dissident thinker, gave the example of brewing good beer.
~ Timothy Snyder
fringe groups representing national minorities who could imagine that somehow the destruction of states provided opportunities.
~ Timothy Snyder
There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.
~ Neil Tennant
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.
~ Ivan Krastev
From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.
~ Rozonda Thomas