Collective Quotes
Lines on what groups achieve, and sometimes fail to achieve, together.
This set of quotes weighs the strength of group effort against its limits, touching on scientific breakthroughs achieved through teamwork and the resolve nations summon after shared tragedy. Readers interested in group dynamics may also enjoy our Everyone Quotes page.
Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
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 much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.
The Cabinet makes collective decision and when the Cabinet speaks it speaks with one voice.
A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.
If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
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.
The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.
Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.
We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.
The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.
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A few lines here take a skeptical view, questioning whether shared judgment is always wiser than acting alone. For more on cooperation, see Agreement Quotes and Agreements Quotes.
