Quotes About Group

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

I realize that looming up before us is one of the major holiday hurdles that any group of girls has to face: the first time they all decide to go swimming together. I hate this bit. It's the Swimsuit Beauty Parade.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Our judgement of what constitutes an appropriate limit on anything—for example, on wealth or esteem—is never arrived at independently; instead, we make such determinations by comparing our condition with that of a reference group, a set of people who we believe resemble us.

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

In the five hundred years that followed, a group of texts collectively known as the Dharma-shastras came where dharma was equated with social obligations

In attacking these readings, Dyson was attacking the very reason for the group; in limiting the participation of one of its members, Dyson eroded its spirit. It is one thing to criticize an author. It is another to shut him down. There is a difference between conflict and contempt. Dyson delivered an axe blow to the root of the tree. The Inklings were shaken, and they never quite recovered.

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

You really do have a pretty voice, Peter. You never should've quit chorus." "The only reason I ever took chorus is because all the girls were in chorus." "Well, then forget about joining a chorus at UVA. No a cappella groups either.

Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity.

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Men in packs can do terrible things, things they wouldn't have the hate to do alone. It's no excuse, just something you should know.

T]oday some people continue to view themselves as victims because of the historical suffering of their group and because it is easy and comforting to do so. And this renders happiness virtually impossible. First…perceiving yourself as a victim makes you unhappy. Second, it makes you permanently angry, which further guarantees unhappiness. Third, it enables you to avoid confronting whatever it is that is really making you unhappy.

The average ego, the average individual, remains fixed in the group, although in the course of development he is compelled to give up the original security of the unconscious, to evolve a conscious system, and to take upon himself all the complications and sufferings which such development entails.

The collective and the group members do not experience the world objectively, but mythologically, in archetypal images and symbols; and their reaction to it is archetypal, instinctive, and unconscious, not individual and conscious.

There's a lot of telepathy, not individual telepathy so much as group telepathy, mind beating on mind, chaining you into a convention of business humdrum.