Collective Quotes

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.

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

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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.

Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons.

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.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

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

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

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.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

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

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.

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

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

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

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.