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collective
«Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.»
«No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.»
«I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable»
Author: Jerry Falwell
(Founder, Pastor)
| Keywords:
collective, expulsion, public square, resulting, sincerely, vulnerable
«Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Conscience
| Keywords:
acting out, collective, The Collective
«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.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
collective, democratic, distinctions, guilt, odious, unfashionable
«Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
abnormal, collective, constantly, distorting, distorts, harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, improve, inner, master, motivates, motivating, normal, paralyses, paralysis, poisons, protects, rid, rid of, welfare
«No other weapon has the power of forbearance.? It should not be used only as an individual instrument.? It has to be experienced collectively also.? That is the reason why the scripture has commended collective forbearance at the very outset of the spiritual quest.? What is its inner meaning??»
«I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
collective, The Collective
«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.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Health,
Liberty
| Keywords:
collective, enjoyed, individual liberty, tasted, The Collective
«Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Progress
| Keywords:
collective, earthly life, pauses