Quotes About Collective

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory.

Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We've agreed to be part of a collective perception. This literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism.

Now that I'm in this seat, I know how monumental a task that is. I will do what I can through executive order to deal with the Collective as Mr. Danreb compiles his report, but another oligarchy here at home continues to gain power. I fear the republic as we know it is dead.

The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness.

The Buddhist approach to this collective suffering is to turn toward it. We understand that genuine happiness and meaning will come through tending to suffering. We overcome out own despair bby helping other to overcome theirs.

A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.

Un desiderio infinito, comune a tutti

happiness manifests itself both personally and collectively as an elusive and deceiving ghost that refuses to let anyone catch it.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

During the Bosnian conflict, an international tribunal was established to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. I was a firm advocate of the tribunal because only through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.

through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

The intelligence of a mob can be determined by dividing the lowest IQ present by the number of people in the mob.

Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing.

La maldad de todo el mundo está compuesta por millones de pequeñas gotas. Es una idiotez hablar de la falta de importancia de esas pequeñas gotas. Las pequeñas gotas y el océano son la misma cosa.

Doing is inherently plural, collective, choral, communal.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

If every community acts collectively, the city shall be clean.