Quotes About Collectivism

La masa, en el libro de Ortega, es un conjunto de individuos que se han desindividualizado, dejando de ser unidades humanas libres y pensantes, disueltas en una amalgama que piensa y actúa por ellos, más por reflejos condicionados —emociones, instintos, pasiones— que por razones.

Consisten en sostener que, pese a su odio recíproco, hay entre el comunismo y el nazismo un denominador común: el colectivismo.

Pese a ello, la mentalidad tribal y la tentación colectivista de desaparecer al individuo dentro de una colectividad supuestamente homogénea e idéntica están lejos de haber sido superadas. Ellas retornan, de manera cíclica, como amenazas constantes a nuestra modernización y a que América Latina asuma, con todas sus consecuencias, la cultura de la libertad.

the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.

It had long been realised that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called 'abolition of private property' which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals.

Collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamed of. ... By bringing the whole of life under the control of the State, Socialism necessarily gives power to an inner ring of bureaucrats, who in almost every case will be men who want power for its own sake and will stick at nothing in order to retain it.

a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.

It had long been realised that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.

the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth

Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war.

el nuevo grupo de los Altos, a diferencia de sus predecesores, no actuaba ya por instinto, sino que sabía lo que necesitaba hacer para salvaguardar su posición. Los privilegiados se habían dado cuenta desde hacía bastante tiempo de que la base más segura para la oligarquía es el colectivismo.

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Individual achievements are not important for me, to be honest.

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

The sort of individualism that scorns and fears connections with other people as threats to the self's integrity, and the sort of collectivism that seeks to submerge the self in a social role, may be more appealing than the Marxian synthesis, because they are intellectually and emotionally so much easier.

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism

Immersion in the group mind is a kind of poor man's self-transcendence.

A "collective" mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the "whole" and accept humbly that the "whole's" verdict – we don't get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.