Group Quotes

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. (Indira Gandhi)
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. View quote
George Carlin
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever does. View quote
Margaret Mead
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. View quote
Norman Mailer
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. View quote
Erica Jong
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. View quote
Milton Friedman
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. (Russell Baker)
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. View quote
Mark Twain
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. View quote
Franz Boas
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies. View quote
Ben Carson
I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here. View quote
Hermann Maier
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. View quote
Indira Gandhi
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society. View quote
John Rawls
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country. View quote
Margaret Mead
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. View quote
Anne Rice
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. (Steven Pinker)
There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever. View quote
Kenny Rogers
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. View quote
Gloria Steinem
It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. View quote
Anne Tyler
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. View quote
Joan Rivers