Quotes About Collective

what's more, he believed that collectively they were even bigger suckers than they were individually.

Talvez a ideia por trás do capitalismo seja um efeito iatrogênico inverso, as consequências involuntárias-mas-não-tão-involuntárias: o sistema facilita a conversão de objetivos egoístas (ou, para ser correto, não necessariamente benevolentes) no nível individual para resultados benéficos ao coletivo.

some idiosyncratic behavior on the part of the individual (deemed at first glance "irrational") may be necessary for efficient functioning at the collective level.

Heroism and the respect it commands is a form of compensation by society for those who take risks for others. And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy. It is also necessarily collective on epistemological grounds—to facilitate the development of expertise.

El impulso universal convierte en un único y vasto corazón la suma de muchos corazones.

In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow

The twenty-five cities were not sited strategically and did not have defensive walls; no evidence of warfare, such as burned buildings or mutilated corpses, has been found. Instead, he said, the basis of the rulers' power was the collective economic and spiritual good. Norte Chico was the realm of King Cotton.

The twenty-five cities were not sited strategically and did not have defensive walls; no evidence of warfare, such as burned buildings or mutilated corpses, has been found. Instead, he said, the basis of the rulers' power was the collective economic and spiritual good.

We loved them individually so much that we betrayed them collectively.

Collective violence has flowed regularly out of the central political processes of western countries... The oppressed have struck in the name of justice, the privileged in the name of order, the in-between in the name of fear.

Individualmente, ninguna de estas canciones es popular, pero hay tantas que colectivamente representan un mercado sustancial.

Washington les hizo caso. En abril de 2012 el presidente Obama incluyó la financiación colectiva en la Ley Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS). Dicha ley facilita a las empresas pequeñas

Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography, and fuels the compliant, corporate collective. Corporatism is about crushing the capacity for moral choice and diminishing the individual to force him or her into an ostensibly harmonious collective.

Models need to be unionized.

When we watch dance, the artists and the audience are part of a momentary collective experience that will never happen again.

The team is the most important thing.

All the shouting is suddenly harmonic. You're making yourself heard at last but the words aren't yours, the rhythm isn't yours. You've become one with the group.

What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.

One of the things that we, as men, have often missed in the church in multiple ways is both experiencing and displaying God's power and blessings collectively. With

Behind every cynical (or merely incompetent) banking executive and trader sits an economist, assuring them (and us) from a position of unchallenged intellectual authority that their actions are publicly useful and should in any case not be subject to collective oversight.

After WWII] the only source of collective national pride were the armed partisan resistance movements that had fought the invader - which is why it was in western Europe where real resistance had actually been least in evidence, that the myth of the Resistance mattered most.

Moreover, a social service provided by a private company does not present itself as a collective good to which all citizens have a right.

What we have been watching is the steady shift of public responsibility onto the private sector to no discernible collective advantage.

This makes it much easier to institute radical departures in public policy. In complex or divided societies, the chances are that a minority—or even a majority—will be forced to concede, often against its will. This makes collective policymaking contentious and favors a minimalist approach to social reform: better to do nothing than to divide people for and against a controversial project.