Quotes About Collective

It was a kind of collective gaslighting. To live in a war that no one around me would acknowledge as a war.

We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.

For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be.

why should we expect our collective memory – which we call history – to be any less fallible than our personal memory?

A murder of crows, a pride of lions, a judgment of ladies

los obreros deben, en ciertas circunstancias, unirse y luchar por el aumento de sus jornales.

La cooperación en el proceso de trabajo, que es la forma imperante en los comienzos de la civilización, en los pueblos de cazadores,20 o en la agricultura de las comunidades indias se basa, de una parte, en la propiedad colectiva sobre las condiciones de producción y de otra parte en el hecho de, que el individuo no ha roto todavía el cordón umbilical que le une a la comunidad o a la tribu, de la que forma parte como la abeja de la colmena. Ambas

To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social, status in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. Capital is, therefore, not a personal, it is a social power.

Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of workers.

They're definitely going to declare war tomorrow. In the morning. It's probably timed so that the nation can get down on its collective knees in church and pray for deliverance.' 'Oh, yes, war is always so Christian, isn't it?

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

In every man there is something of all men.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Even weak men when united are powerful.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.