Quotes About Collective

In short, freedom belongs to individuals only by virtue of their membership in the 'we'.

To induce a collective content for the imagination is always an inhuman undertaking, not only because dreaming essentializes life into destiny, but also because dreams are impoverished, and the alibi of an absence.

But when a myth reaches the entire community, it is from the latter than the mythologist must become estranged if he wants to liberate the myth.

He had seen the herd instinct at work, the anonymity, the removal of inhibition, the implied permissions of collective action. He had seen that an angry crowd was the most dangerous animal on the face of the earth.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.