Quotes About Collective

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

Throughout the typing pool all the girls began to do the same.

To recognize and integrate something monstrous from our collective past as a society requires considerable time, just as it does on the individual level, in therapy. To rush the process may mean that the mechanisms of denial are further strengthened. We still need our illusions, our crutches, as we confront a new and painful aspect of the truth on our journey toward a complete perception of the child's situation.

Being vulnerable, as well as honest, is the key to collective liberation. This is one thing I understand from the principles of disability justice. It is not something that happens overnight after buying a candle, listening to a podcast, or reading a memoir. It requires daily intentions, self-reflections, and support from the people who care about you.

Humanity , n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.

Similarly, at exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every sense a collective predicament, humanity finds itself in the thrall of a dominant culture in which the idea of the collective has been exiled from politics, economics, and literature alike.

Quando nós brilhamos eles todos voltam, sabe? A luz que produzimos juntos revela tudo que já foi perdido para a escuridão.

It was, I imagine, how bees feel. Not like an individual at all, but like one humming note in a whole world of perfect, useful music.

Historical events may stay in the collective records of memory, or they may be allowed to deteriorate, slowly or rapidly, through the overt choices of the powerful. The latter usually seek to suppress or weaken collective memories of societal oppression, and to construct positive and often fictional memories of that history.

The term generally given this sickness in the Christian tradition is "sin," a multivalent term that points to the myriad ways in which humans –individually, collectively, and systemically –neglect, deny, and refuse simply to be human –that is, to embrace and live out their vocation as creatures made in the image of God.

Political pessimism keeps people trapped in a search for purely personal and individual solutions.

It said that we are, collectively, experiencing "a more rapid exhaustion of attention resources.

There's no point giving people sweet self-help lectures about the benefits of unplugging unless you give them a legal right to do it. In fact... [it] becomes a kind of maddening taunt... If you have an independent fortune and you don't need to work, then you can probably make these changes now. But for the rest of us, we need to be part of a collective struggle in order to reclaim the time and space that has been taken from us - so we can finally rest, and sleep, and restore our attention.

This is a common human response to the circumstances in which we all live. This is not something that separates you from the world. It's something, actually, you share with countless others." We need to see "this is not just my personal problem," he said, but "a shared problem—and attributable to the kind of society we live in.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

In the West, it may help if the church started thinking more in terms of we than me.

What does unhappiness matter when we are all unhappy together?

Panic is an ugly beast; in one person, it is a savage focus on the need of the "me" to escape, to survive. Ironically, when it infects a group en massé it becomes a collective noun nonetheless, while losing none of the savagery.