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• In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

  Federica Montseny

  Responsibility, Should Have, Spain

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• Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

  Stanley Crouch

  Humanity, Able, Democratic

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• 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.

  Hannah Arendt

  Discovery, Guilt, Doing Nothing

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Real, Mean

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• Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Goal, Advertising

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• One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Imagination, Worry, Together

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.100, U of Minnesota Press

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• You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dream, Years, Collective Unconscious

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• I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Fashion, Lying, Responsibility

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• Duty is not collective; it is personal.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Duty

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

  Jacques Delors

  Government, Agreement, Unions

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• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Night, Fire

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• I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Suspicious

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• Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Ego, Want

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• When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

  Steve Lacy

  Research, Awful, Originality

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Literature, Madness

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

  John L. Lewis

  Agreement, Organization, Steel

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Interesting, Should, Mass

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• Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

  Lily Tomlin

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

  David Icke

  Believe, Race, Police

  Leading Edge Newspaper, July/August 1996.

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• Film is a collective experience, as you know.

  Sydney Pollack

  Film, Knows

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• The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

  Moshe Dayan

  Punishment, Method

  "Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999". Book by Benny Morris, 1999.

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• 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

  Culture, World, Narcissist

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• I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

  Elia Kazan

  Bohemian Rhapsody, Elitist, Persons

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.205, Knopf

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• The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

  James Daly

  Business, Energy, Made

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• Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Revenge, Consciousness, Habit

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