Quotes with collective

  • 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.
  • At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
  • But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
  • If the 19th 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.
  • I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
  • 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.
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  • Thomas Carlyle I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Carole King All I needed to do was sing with conviction, speaking my truth from the heart, honestly and straightforwardly, and to offer my words, ideas and music to the audience as if it were one collective friend that I'd known for a very long time.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.
    Source: The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan 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
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • E. M. Forster At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Henderson But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bertrand Russell Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
    Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bob Beauprez Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Duty is not collective; it is personal.

    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Audrey Hepburn I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan 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
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Benito Mussolini If the 19th 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.
    Source: The Doctrine of Fascism
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Aldous Huxley Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Henderson It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Henry Bolingbroke 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.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Henry Fuseli Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
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