Quotes About Collective

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company. It's an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

Under Marxism-Leninism, the self-proclaimed ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, individuals do not possess inherent value. People are merely a tool to achieve the ends of the collective nation-state. The idea may sound inhumane, but it is as fundamental to the CCP as the Bill of Rights is to Americans.

In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.

The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader.

Si nuestras vidas son breves y carecen de dirección, al menos podemos sentirnos orgullosos de nuestro coraje colectivo en nuestra lucha por comprender cosas mucho más grandes que nosotros.

Did the chronicles of their lives collectively

Después de todo pienso que entonces, en febrero de 1933, no se puede tomar a mal el hecho de que la mayoría de alemanes se creyera la teoría del incendio comunista. Lo que sí se les puede reprochar, y en lo que consiste su primera y terrible debilidad de carácter colectivo durante la época nazi, es que después de aquello el asunto quedó solucionado.

We - that indefinite we - with no name, no party, no argument and no power

In war, {freedom's} meaning is bound to the collective, making peace and freedom the same . . . The collective is a mob that suffers in silence, and waits.

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

Whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

Paradoxical as it may seem, collective bargaining is not losing ground in the United States because unions are less attractive, but unions are less attractive because collective bargaining is losing ground.

their foolish insistence that any problem can be solved by the proper amount of applied group-think.

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

Women exercise agency in order to survive the power relations and oppressive circumstances in which they find themselves. The theoretical task, Miriam argues, is for radical feminist theory to 'theorize freedom in terms of women's collective political agency (power to): this task requires an understanding that freedom is not negotiating within a situation taken as inevitable, but rather, a capacity to radically transform and/or determine the situation itself'.

The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.