Collective Quotes

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

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

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.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

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.

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

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.

We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.

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

I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

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.

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

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.