Small Groups Quotes - Page 6

• [Interminable monologues] became an issue only late in [Adolf] Hitler's life. He became repetitive after the war started going badly in Russia. He wasn't like this earlier on, he could be very funny in our small group, very relaxed, teasing and it was just a relaxed atmosphere.

  Gretl Braun

  War, Russia, Issues

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• Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Differences, Decision

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• After so many years now, it's just suspected by most people that there simply is no way to change the direction Washington's going or the country's going or to do anything about that small group of establishment elitists in both parties that end up running things for themselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ideas, Psychology, Groups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.

  Paul Beatty

  Teaching, Groups, Stuff

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Organization, Growth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Team, People, Groups

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Sex, Past

  Source: inters.org

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• The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Race, Groups

  Source: medium.com

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• Hillary Clinton gave us ISIS, because her and Obama created this huge vacuum, and a small group came out of that huge vacuum because when - we should never have been in Iraq, but once we were there, we should have never got out the way they wanted to get out.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Should Have, Iraq

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• That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

  George Michael

  People, Singing, Tables

  Source: www.gminfopage.com

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• We have always had, remember, small groups of both parties that split off. There were the "blue dog Democrats." There were the "Dixie Democrats." Democrats were never going to, ever again, pull together.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dog, Party, Blue

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.

  Nicholas Bloom

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.

  George Lucas

  Hate, Fans, Groups

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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• I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Decision

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• Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.

  Stephanie Mills

  Talking, Giving, Feelings

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• Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Groups, Citizens, Fundamentals

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1093, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Gentleman

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• Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Groups, Underestimate

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• An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. The individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the State.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Groups, Needs, Cooperation

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.34, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Strong, Groups, Would Be

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

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• It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Moon, Men

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• The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Groups, Use, Individual

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.

  Jacques Ellul

  Decision, Challenges, Groups

  "The Ethics of Freedom". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, p. 397, 1976.

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• He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Men, Groups, Students

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