Collective Quotes

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle)
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable. View quote
Franco Modigliani
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. View quote
Lily Tomlin
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. View quote
Penelope Lively
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. (Elie Wiesel)
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. View quote
Peter Senge
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The evolution of our individual consciousness paves the way toward the evolution of our collective consciousness. This individual-collective evolution, more than anything else, can and must change this world. View quote
Ervin László
The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? View quote
Andy Stern
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television. View quote
Christine Vachon
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. (Christopher Lasch)
I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision. View quote
Rachel Griffiths
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. View quote
Steve Lacy
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. View quote
Theodore C. Sorensen
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us. View quote
Chris Hedges