Quotes About Collective

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

A crowd is always impressed by the sum of its own number.

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

In our hands is a placed power greater with their hoarded gold, greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring the birth the new world from the ashes of the old, for the union makes us strong.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

To destroy public faith in legality was the imperfect formula of his pedantic fanaticism; but the subconscious conviction that the framework of an established social order cannot be effectually shattered except by some form of collective or individual violence was precise and correct.  He was a moral agent—that was settled in his mind.

The great republic has the root of the destructive matter in her. The collective temperament is lawless.

that struggling individual on the brink of collective identity

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.

A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word "I" when you're in a group makes things complicated.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

It was Seaver himself who called the Mets' triumph "the greatest collective victory by any team in sports," an observation as brilliantly on target as any knee-high curveball on the outside corner that he threw all season.

there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

Le bonheur individuel se doit de produire des retombées collectives, faute de quoi, la société n'est qu'un rêve de prédateur.

A moshav is a cooperative community of individual farms, which is different from a kibbutz." "Very

The idea that collective responsibility is racist has got lost in the righteous fury.

That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

Nadie es mejor que el grupo, y el brillo individual no conduce automáticamente a unos resultados sobresalientes. Una mentalidad egoísta puede infectar el espíritu colectivo.