Quotes About Collective

there was no such thing as collective guilt. But we Germans have been told for twenty years that we are all guilty. Do you believe that?

there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation." [p.28]

The specific murderers of the SS therefore hide even today behind the collective guilt theory.

This highly enigmatic concept of the storehouse consciousness, which some Western scholars have aptly or inaptly tried to liken to Jung's collective unconscious,

History is what hurts, it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis...

As for conceptual thought, if we grasp the problem as one of escaping from the purely individualizing categories of ethics, of transcending the categories into which our existence as individual subjects necessarily locks us and opening up the radically distinct transindividual perspectives of collective life or historical process, then the conclusion seems unavoidable that we already have the ideal of a thinking able to go beyond good and evil, namely the dialectic itself.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

But I still wondered: if we didn't matter as individuals, then what were we saving the group for?

An experience of collective pain does not deliver us from grief or sadness; it is a ministry of presence. These moments remind us that we are not alone in our darkness and that our broken heart is connected to every heart that has known pain since the beginning of time.

Show up for collective moments of joy and pain so we can actually bear witness to inextricable human connection. Women and men with the strongest true belonging practices maintain their belief in inextricable connection by engaging in moments of joy and pain with strangers.

But the more we're willing to seek out moments of collective joy and show up for experiences of collective pain—for real, in person, not online—the more difficult it becomes to deny our human connection, even with people we may disagree with.

the injustice and systemic oppression that we see in the world today stem from a deep, collective lovelessness and calls for an ethic of love.

The level of collective courage in an organization is the absolute best predictor of that organization's ability to be successful

Not only do moments of collective emotion remind us of what is possible between people, but they also remind us of what is true about the human spirit.

When we come together to share authentic joy, hope, and pain, we melt the pervasive cynicism that often cloaks our better human nature. When we come together under the false flag of common enemy intimacy, we amplify cynicism and diminish our collective worth.

Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience and transform despair into hope. Only art can take the holler of a returning soldier and turn it into a shared expression and a deep collective experience. Music, like all art, gives pain in our most wrenching emotions voice, language and form so it can be recognized and shared.

If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions; and I am confident that, as our circumstances are more flourishing, our means are greater than the nobleman's.

We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separate and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.

Reality is here and now, everywhere, gleaming through every reflection that meets the eye.... Everybody is a neurotic, down to the last man and woman. The healer, or the analyst, if you like, is only a super-neurotic.... To be cured we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another--it is a private affair which is best done collectively.

I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.

Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.