Collectives Quotes

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Ignorance, Majority Rule

  "Notes On Journalism". Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1926.

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• Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Evil, Humanity, Behavior

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• The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

  Sam Rayburn

  Real, Heart, Acting

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Realizing, Public Service

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• It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

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• But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Government, Democracy, Energy

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• Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Healthy, Individuality

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• Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

  Naveen Jain

  Mom, World, Today

  "Dear CEOs, Celebrate Failure" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2011.

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• 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.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Ignorance, Fighting, Men

  'Four Essays on Liberty' (1969) 'Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century'

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• Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Unions, Lost, Bargaining

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

  David Letterman

  Change, Collective Unconscious, Justice

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• Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

  Stanislav Grof

  Race, Collective Unconscious, Culture

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• The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

  John McCain

  Political, Consciousness, Embedded

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

  Jessica Savitch

  Media, Information, Enterprise

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

  Margaret Walker

  Memories, Collective Unconscious, People

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• You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Agreement, Groups, Individual

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• I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

  Amartya Sen

  Welfare Programs, Choices, Social

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• In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

  Mark Sanford

  Hands, Promise

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• As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

  Dee Hock

  Memories, Mean, Years

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• The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

  Marc Maron

  Collective Unconscious, Consciousness, Internet

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• I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

  Rachel Griffiths

  People, Vision, Helping

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

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Perception, Suits

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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

  Responsibility, Government, Defense

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