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Quotes About Collective

Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.
~ Manisha Koirala
I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.
~ Pharrell Williams
The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
~ Jacques Delors
Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.
~ Kamand Kojouri
the Nazis confiscated firearms to prevent armed resistance, whether individual or collective, to their own criminality.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
free State" is not some elusive "collective" that is more than the sum of its individual parts. Webster defined "free" in part as follows: "In government, not enslaved; not in a state of vassalage or dependence; subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws; not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord; as a free state, nation or people.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.
~ Stephen Richards
The reason Americans favor milk chocolate over dark is because Milton Hershey got his bars into enough American mouths to establish our collective taste.
~ Steve Almond
The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding to a crowd and engaging in people's imaginations collectively in a room. I've always thought that one of the most incredible things about being alive is going to see some kind of performance like that.
~ Johnny Flynn
But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.
~ John Hutton
It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
~ James Surowiecki
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
~ James Surowiecki
Newton's laws aren't fundamental, they are emergent; that is, they are what happens when quantum matter aggregates into macroscopic fluids and objects. It is a collective organizational phenomenon.
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
El sueño del planeta se va construyendo con las elecciones colectivas que hacemos: es la manifestación de nuestra intención compartida.
~ Miguel Ruiz
what will be said of those who have never met Hitler in the physical body, but have also felt and continue to feel magically united with Him, to his struggle; even those born after his disappearance and in countries so far away! The expressions symbolic figures, Archetype, collective unconscious are hypotheses that attempt to explain the mystery.
~ Miguel Serrano
Hoy somos todos iguales, todos unidos por la común indiferencia hacia nuestro trabajo. Esta indiferencia hacia nuestro trabajo. Esta indiferencia ha pasado a ser pasión. La única gran pasión colectiva de nuestro tiempo.
~ Milan Kundera
Look around you. Of all the people you see, no one is here by his own wish. Of course, what I just said is the most banal truth there is. So banal, and so basic, that we've stopped seeing it and hearing it.
~ Milan Kundera
But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and simple truths to make the multitudes understand, to provoke collective tears.
~ Milan Kundera
Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy towards our work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.
~ Milan Kundera
This particular wish—the desire to remain a child forever—strikes me as a defining aspect in American life right now: a collective sentiment that imposes itself over the neutrality of facts and context. This narrative is about how we wish the world worked out in contrast to the disappointment that everyday life offers us, and it helps us to shield ourselves from not only the chaos of reality but also from our own personal failures.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The heartbeat steadied, their minds opened Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and the flow began, like a torrent through an open dam. Lobia poured her life into Anirul, transferring memories, aspects of personality, every bit of data contained in her long life. One day, Anirul herself would pass the information to another, younger Sister. In this manner, the Sisterhood's collective memory was amassed and made potentially available to all Bene Gesserit.
~ Brian Herbert
Using a slogan from ANT, you have 'to follow the actors themselves', that is try to catch up with their often wild innovations in order to learn from them what the collective existence has become in their hands, which methods they have elaborated to make it fit together, which accounts best define the new associations that they have been forced to established.
~ Bruno Latour