Quotes About Collective

If human power in history—among races, nations, and other collectives as well as individuals—is self-interested power, then "the revelation of divine goodness in history" must be weak and not strong.

Here Comes Everybody.

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

I could have written the entire incident off, but any time three people report a scream, they're calling not about a sound but about a memory that lives in the collective unconscious, one that goes back to the cave. When we are alarmed to the degree that we have to tell others about it, we're dipping into a primal knowledge about the darker potential of the gene pool. Or at least this has always been my belief.

We are the predatory swarm!

that power is first of all a relationship and not merely an entity to be passed around like a baton or hand grenade; that it involves the intention or purpose of both power holder and power recipient; and hence that it is collective, not merely the behavior of one person.

equal, hierarchical, or unrelated? These relationships also define the exercise of power as a collective act. A psychological

Normal behavior, therefore, is when we collectively believe that the circumstances justify the behavior. Likewise, abnormal behavior is when we don't.

Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.

In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.

Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.

My dad was in a union.

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

Public unions are big money.