Quotes About Collective

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

You sip the water from the same ocean in which all the hope was lost. Us

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?