Collective Quotes

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

Wisdom, Ignorance, Democracy

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.
Will Smith

Movies, Idea, Connecting

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Toward, Instinct

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, Human, Wrong

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

Press, Masses, Organizer

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom, Ignorance, Individual

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman

Education, Thought, Books

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Men, Mind, Moral

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

Dreams, Done, Create

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

Fire, Night, Books

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Evil, Humanity, Individual

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin

Nothing, Reality, Hunch

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

Real, Rather, Means

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
Marilyn Manson

God, Word, Antichrist

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

Human, Goal, Among

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

Human, Thought, Police

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
Deepak Chopra

Good, Human, Place

And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
Deepak Chopra

Soul, Personal, Word

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Zachary Quinto

Great, Government, Culture

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
David Herbert Lawrence

Money, Madness, Vast

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin

Reality, Anyway, Hunch

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
Paul Ryan

Real, Moral, Individual

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
Jerry Saltz

Music, Time, Joy

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

History, Someone, Human

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin

Men, Positive, Live

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.
Simon Mainwaring

Society, Through, Social

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Political, Thinking

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

Ego, Individual, Though

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

Best, Nothing, Guilty

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