Quotes About Collective

The unity of a nation consists mainly in its being able to act, when necessary, like a single paranoiac.

The abandonment of civilized values exposes us collectively to possession by the worst elements of the Shadow.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

People who do not want the good change often ask only Individual to change i.e 'I' not the group i.e 'We', as they know this would never happen any day.

It's also our collective delusion that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

Collective effervescence," as the French sociologist Emile Durkheim called it in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, is a state of emotional excitation felt by those who join with others they take to be fellow members of a moral or biological tribe. They gather to affirm their unity and, united, they feel secure and respected.

I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

In the 20th century, ecologists discovered that in the self-organization of ecosystems, cooperation is actually much more important than competition. We constantly observe partnerships, linkages, associations—species living inside one another, depending on one another for survival. Partnership is a key characteristic of life. Self-organization is a collective enterprise.

Nobody wins or loses a match; it's the team that wins or loses. You have to be looking to contribute towards the team goal.

Many other states ultimately - they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin - but collective bargaining from the federal level... these are big issues, and these costs need to be put under control.

The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.