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Quotes About Collective

We—collective humanity—must rethink and reimagine our world and our personal lives along spiritual lines.
~ Tamar Frankiel
A single tree will never make an orchard.
~ Tamil proverb
The fact is, we humans don't live directly in the physical universe. We live in a model of the world we have created collectively through language and which we maintain communally. That model was already in existence when we were born; we merely made our way into it as we matured. Becoming an adult meant gaining the ability to imagine the same world as everyone else.
~ Tamim Ansary
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
~ Tecumseh
Jazz at this time is still mostly a group effort.
~ Ted Gioia
I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
~ T. C. Boyle
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
~ Andreas Gursky
I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.
~ Laurie Holden
The president is the face of the State of Israel around the world: not a representative of a specific ideology but of the collective creativity and history of the Jewish people.
~ Reuven Rivlin
With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Pep's Barcelona was spectacular. They had a collective style based on players of talent, which sought control and sought to dominate all over the pitch.
~ Luis Enrique
As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel... at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences... Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.
~ Jean Kennedy Smith
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
~ Joseph Stalin
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
~ Paul Ricoeur
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
~ Albrecht Durer
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Events and experiences are opportunities drawn to you—created by you individually or collectively, through consciousness. Consciousness creates experience. You are attempting to raise your consciousness. You have drawn these opportunities to you in order that you might use them as tools in the creation and experiencing of Who You Are. Who You Are is a being of higher consciousness than you are now exhibiting.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
A starry message was gently descending from space, infusing us all with a veritable firmware upgrade of our collective capacity to care.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Por ello las acciones que en un caso pueden poner diques a la fortuna y resultar virtuosas, en el otro pueden fracasar; por ello también el par virtud/fortuna tiene una acepción unipersonal e individual en el primer caso (el recogido en El príncipe) y otra colectiva y republicana en el segundo (el de los Discursos).
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration.
~ Alex Garland
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective consciousness. But like many of the myths associated with colonialism, the reality is very different.
~ Antonio Guterres