Collectives Quotes - Page 18

• Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her own interest is incorrect. This is shown by what are known as "prisoner's dilemma" situations, which are playing an increasingly important role in discussions of ethical theory... At least on the collective level, therefore, egoism is self-defeating - a conclusion well brought out by Parfit in his aforementioned Reasons and Persons.

  Peter Singer

  Self, Important, Doe

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• If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Team, Organization

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.190, Anchor

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• Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

  James Surowiecki

  Diversity, Decision, Independence

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.19, Anchor

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• I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening - a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation. I have little doubt that as individuals, families, communities, and even nations, we have the capacity to learn how to heal and prevent much of the damage done by trauma. In so doing, we will significantly increase our ability to achieve both our individual and collective dreams.

  Peter A. Levine

  Dream, Spiritual, Believe

  "Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body". Book by Peter A. Levine, 2005.

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• Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

  Pierre Levy

  Order, Intellectual, Cooperation

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• One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

  Aldo Rossi

  Memories, Cities, Collective Memory

  Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press

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• The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Process, Entity

  "Human action: a treatise on economics".

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• Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Responsibility, People, Use

  David C. Korten (2010). “Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Way, Reactions

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.50, Penguin

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• The future exists only in our imagination
  it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express
  that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness
  listening in the silence
  until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.

  Dawna Markova

  Voice, Imagination, Waiting

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• If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

  Janine Shepherd

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

  Janine Shepherd (2016). “Defiant: A Broken Body Is Not a Broken Person”, p.121, Sounds True

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• It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shopping

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• There is no individual salvation without collective salvation

  Barack Obama

  Interesting, Individual, Salvation

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• Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

  Ibn Arabi

  Quests, Invisible, Revelations

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• His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.

  Edward Seaga

  Men, Voice, Style

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• What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of one’s private property was a sacred right, to a day when the so-called property “owner” faces a hovering hoard of taxmen and regulators threatening to lien, foreclose, and “go to auction” at the first sign of private defiance of their collective will ... a relationship between government and private property rights which my dictionary defines as “fascism.”

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Rights, Government, Years

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

  Jeremiah Denton

  Strong, Individual, Nations

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• This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have failed to care for each other.

  Robert Jensen

  Simple, Discovery, World

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• No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

  Karen Tei Yamashita

  Imagination, Cheesy, Fascination

  Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”

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• There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

  Jaime Lerner

  Dream, Responsibility, Cities

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• The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Struggle, Rights

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• Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking, 'What can I get from the world that exists,' to asking, 'What can I offer to the world that is awakening?' The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next.

  Gregg Braden

  Powerful, Future, Thinking

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• Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Healing, Order

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 17, 2013

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• Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.

  Brian McDonald

  Art, Jobs, Responsibility

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• I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Healing, Revolution

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