24 Quotes About Collective

While it may not be possible to solve all of the world’s problems, the good news is that you can help bring some light into the world through your actions. By taking just a few minutes to reflect on the following quotes by different people of influence, you can start to see how your actions can have a positive effect on the world around you. Whether you are feeling inspired or frustrated by the state of the world today, these quotes are certain to get you thinking about how you can make a difference.

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There is more for us to gain through love than hate. Suzy Kassem
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We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied. Tarun Betala
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Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning. Jeffrey Tucker
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We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of recognition. There was a sense of wonder at being in a public place for the first time in years without fear or anger, being in a place with a crowd of strangers that was not a demonstration, a protest rally, a breadline or a public execution.. For a brief time we experienced collectively the kind of awful beauty that can only be grasped at through extreme anguish and expressed through art. Azar Nafisi
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Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance. Unknown
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Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate. Nuno Roque
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Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time. Aldous Huxley
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As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intelligence of an unwieldy, stupid, and violent animal. The bigger the organization, the more unavoidable is its immorality and blind stupidity." Each of these systems promotes itself by pointing out the moral failings of the other, but these moral failings are actually failings brought about by people acting within the context of large organizations. What is truly needed is to learn a structure of organization of human beings that provides for the organized group the same capacity and propensity for moral behavior that is possessed by individuals. . Anonymous
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Although complex, life is simple. It is individual. Living is the challenge. It is interactive. It's collective. Unknown
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Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology. Shannon L. Alder
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Is there anything like a collective brain? Lailah Gifty Akita
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The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization. Toba Beta
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...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced. Michael Burawoy
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Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning. A.E. Samaan
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In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It was a collective death and not a matter of bravery or even strength, and once it was down it was finished as a battle. Paul Hoffman
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The desire to “do more in less time” is not a neutral force in our culture; it is the handmaiden of miserable experts, specialists, and leaders. Not everyone has rushed to become efficient. Something else exists on the periphery: an inefficient utopia, a culture of consensus, collectives, and do-it-yourself ethics. A place where time is not bought, sold, or leased and no clock is the final arbiter of our worth. For many people in North America, the problem is not just poverty but lack of time to do the things that are actually meaningful. This is not a symptom of personal failures but the consequence of a time-obsessed society. Today, desire for efficiency springs from the scarcity model, which is the foundation of capitalism. Time is seen as a limited resource when we get caught up in meaningless jobs, mass-produced entertainment, and — the common complaint of activists — tedious meanings. Curious George Brigade
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Their musical ability and performance seems to derive from the past collective experience and presents itself in the individual unconscious today. Through it we tap into something eternal and it is apparent even in how they approach their playing. Perhaps we relate to it because, of any other instrument, the cello has a range that matches the human voice. Kytka HilmarJezek
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We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence. Jane McGonigal
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When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system. Louis B. Rosenberg
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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. Don Nickles
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. D. H. Lawrence
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. Harry S Truman
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In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change. Mark Sanford