Quotes about Collective
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
— Euripides
By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.
— Max De Pree
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
— Thomas Jefferson
While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not make the mistake of thinking that this means the necessity to worship Mankind (as a collective). These are two entirely different conceptions, with entirely - (immensely and diametrically opposed) - different consequences.
— Ayn Rand
socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.
— Ayn Rand
Lois Cook said that words must be freed from the oppression of reason. She said the stranglehold of reason upon words is like the exploitation of the masses by the capitalists. Words must be permitted to negotiate with reason through collective bargaining. That's what she said. She's so amusing and refreshing.
— Ayn Rand
Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.
— Stephen Covey
Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.
— Shane Claiborne
Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.
— Maya Angelou
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— St. Augustine
If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way
— Henri Nouwen
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
— Elie Wiesel