Collectives Quotes - Page 9

• In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Development, Consciousness, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.272, Princeton University Press

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• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Smart, Humility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 31, 2013

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• If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

  Benito Mussolini

  Mean, May, Individualism

  "The Doctrine of Fascism". Book by Benito Mussolini, 1932.

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• I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.

  George Lucas

  Children, Responsibility, Emotional

  "George Lucas' 2010 Philanthropy Pledge". George Lucas' Giving Pledge letter, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.

  Marion Woodman

  Pride, Mass Destruction, Ego

  "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1996.

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• Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Hydra, Monsters

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.

  Theodor Adorno

  Culture, Demand, Trouble

  "Culture Industry Reconsidered". Book by Theodor Adorno, 1963.

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• Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Party, Faithful

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Organization, Discipline

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.

  David Hume

  Imagination, Vivid, Spheres

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• Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.

  Robert Gordis

  Humble, Loss, Biblical

  Robert Gordis (1971). “The Biblical text in the making: a study of the kethib-qere”, Ktav Pub Inc

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• The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

  Frantz Fanon

  Expression, People, Consciousness

  "The Wretched of the Earth". Book by Frantz Fanon, 1961.

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• Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Determination, Memories

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Being Outside", p. 273, 1985.

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• The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Player, Games, Outcomes

  "Game Theory as a Theory of Conflict Resolution" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 4), 1974.

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• Samadhi is the journey from individual to collective consciousness. The steps of Samadhi are the steps towards reaching the collective consciousness. In meditation, the more we radiate love, compassion, peace, harmony and tranquility, the more is our contribution towards the collective consciousness. The more we positively contribute towards the collective consciousness the more is our progress in Samadhi.

  Amit Ray

  Journey, Compassion, Meditation

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• We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

  Nick Harkaway

  Support, Needs, Answers

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I’m haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make...the kind of world we’d create ... makes me want to cry sometimes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Decision, What If, Tragedy

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Add, Moral

  "Deepak Chopra Talks About Awakening the World and His “Sages and Scientists” Symposium". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, Wikipedia, Amazon

  "Forum: The Road Ahead". content.time.com. November 09, 2005.

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• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Being Yourself, Jobs, School

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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• It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Pressure, Scoundrels, Hard

  "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, (p. 34), 1992.

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• One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control--to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic. The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient's control over every interaction.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Powerful, Thinking, Might

  Irvin D. Yalom (1983). “Inpatient Group Psychotherapy”, Basic Books

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• Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

  Chris Hedges

  Hate, Self, Worship

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.10, PublicAffairs

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• Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

  Charles Stross

  Memories, Dictator, Amnesia

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.222, Penguin

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• 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

  Collective Unconscious, Quality, Matter

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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