Quotes About Collective

#1. For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

Nick Bantock

#2. We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

A. N. Wilson

#3. Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.

Muhammad Yunus

#4. People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

Jesse Jackson

#5. I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

Steve Cosson

#6. We share a communist collective memory. We're neighbors in memory.

Svetlana Alexievich

#7. Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks ... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get.
It's really not even fair to everyone else.

Richelle Mead

#8. The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

Jeremiah Denton

#9. The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

Socrates

#10. In war, {freedom's} meaning is bound to the collective, making peace and freedom the same . . . The collective is a mob that suffers in silence, and waits.

Semezdin Mehmedinovic

#11. I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. India, created by collective leadership and built on principles of diversity and tolerance, has become a country addicted to debate; Pakistan,

Roderick Matthews

#13. Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.

Pearl Zhu

#14. Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.

Claire Fontaine

#15. The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director ... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.

King Vidor

#16. I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

Paulo Coelho

#17. There is no such thing as collective guilt.

Kurt Waldheim

#18. The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

Charlie Daniels

#19. America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.

George M. Gilbert

#20. What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

Wadah Khanfar

#21. It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by ... ' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too.

Xavier Dolan

#22. I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

Elie Wiesel

#23. Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

L. Neil Smith

#24. Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

Deepak Chopra

#25. Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction.

Thomas L. Friedman

#26. As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

Ron Jaworski

#27. But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

John Hutton

#28. The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs' relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair.

Ransom Riggs

#29. There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

Ty Burrell

#30. I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Kathy Acker

#31. By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

Margaret D. Klein

#32. Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.

Daisaku Ikeda

#33. Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

Anodea Judith

#34. The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Narendra Modi

#35. All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

A. E. Waite

#36. The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

Eckhart Tolle

#37. Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

Max Lerner

#38. The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

Georgia Harkness

#39. A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules

Robert Axtell

#40. Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Jay Griffiths

#41. One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.

Martin Amis

#42. Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.

David Horsey

#43. Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

Geert Hofstede

#44. We are all of our past, present and future lives, as well as the younger and older versions of ourselves. We are also every version, of everyone, in every time, everywhere. Space and time are collective illusions, and we exist in these other dimensions and times for eternity.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#45. The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte

#46. Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

George Packer

#47. No one said a word for some time. Everyone stared at Hadrian in wonder, including Albert, whose mouth hung agape.

It was the duchess who finally found words to sum up their collective thoughts. "Well, aren't you just an astonishment topped with surprises!

Michael J. Sullivan

#48. The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.

Toba Beta

#49. It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

William Irwin Thompson

#50. Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

Pierre Bourdieu

#51. The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

Donald Berwick

#52. Science fiction is more than just our collective dreams for a human race that reaches to the stars. In many ways, the dreams of yesterday are becoming the realities of today and the path for tomorrow.

George Takei

#53. Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).

Michael Snow

#54. I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Thom Mayne

#55. Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

Peter Diamandis

#56. The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

Margaret Thatcher

#57. Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

Henry Rollins

#58. Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Calvin Coolidge

#59. I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.

Stromae

#60. the collective fears of the Anglo-Saxon upper and middle classes about a changing America. Record levels of immigration were transforming the nation's ethnic and religious makeup. And

Adam Cohen

#61. my mother sees chaos biting at her doorstep, while the rest of us inhabit a fabricated playscape whose benevolence is a collective delusion.

Lionel Shriver

#62. 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.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#63. Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#64. Man is nature, nature man, and all crude and raw, stinking, vicious, evil. And holding that evil lightly because the collective mind refuses to recall the spring of mountains, the vault of seas and, of course, beside that, the puny murder of millions.

John A. Williams

#65. You can almost hear people's b-holes tighten. A collective cartoon-mouse squeak of b-hole.

Tina Fey

#66. In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

James Surowiecki

#67. Moreover, the subjective interpretation which sees the myth as a transpersonal psychic event is, in view of the myth's origins in the collective unconscious, much fairer than an attempt to interpret it objectively,

Erich Neumann

#68. To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Hermann Hesse

#69. A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.

Carl Sagan

#70. Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

Umberto Eco

#71. We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now.

Jean-Michel Cousteau

#72. so long as culture is "in balance," the individuals contained in it normally stand in an adequate relationship to the collective unconscious, even if this is only a relationship to the archetypal projections of the cultural canon and to its highest values.

Erich Neumann

#73. As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.

John Battelle

#74. I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

Tadashi Yanai

#75. All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

Eric Hoffer

#76. There's no rule book for the world. It's in our heads, our collective human hive-mind. If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want.

Isaac Marion

#77. With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

Richard Benjamin

#78. A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Georges Clemenceau

#79. Collective madness is called sanity ..

Paulo Coelho

#80. I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives.

Thaddeus Lawrence

#81. Imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community.

Eula Biss

#82. It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.

David Graeber

#83. Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Penelope Lively

#84. To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants - a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.

Aldo Leopold

#85. I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.

Bradford Cox

#86. In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

George Ayittey

#87. The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.

Bryant McGill

#88. Personal Responsibility leads to collective responsibility.

Sunday Adelaja

#89. I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.

Ben Lerner

#90. The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

Max Lerner

#91. Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

William Safire

#92. This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that time were still here, alive, even if it was just in the form of collective memory.

Carrie Vaughn

#93. At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

Halsey

#94. Foreigners may be admitted to citizenship by naturalization, either collectively or individually. Collective naturalization may occur when a foreign territory and its inhabitants are transferred to the United States.

Charles A. Beard

#95. I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

Daniel Craig

#96. White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.

Steve Erickson

#97. True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

Nirmala Srivastava

#98. No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

Nelson Mandela

#99. The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.

John Hutton

#100. I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Robin Cook