Top 420 Collective Quotes

There’ll be creative business leaders but actually, when it comes down to it, they can’t do anything unless they’re part of a collective. Unless they’ve got that wealth creator, that engineer and that work person, that skilled person at the bench to fulfil that idea… they’re nothing.

Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here.

I’m not religious. I’m not an atheist. Would I say I’m an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I’m much more interested in.

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

Massive Attack has always been more of an experiment than a band or even a collective.

It’s always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world’s collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a ‘Hate Anne Hathaway’ movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Equally, we require a collective past – hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

There is nothing efficient about firms spurning more productive technologies because years of unrelenting attacks on social safety nets and collective bargaining have created cheap labour in abundance.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It’s a collective process.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

The Women’s March in Washington was about giving power to the collective voices of women everywhere to demand that our leaders put the interests, safety, and welfare of all Americans first.

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

I think there’s something really freeing about improv, that it’s a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That’s really exciting and really frustrating, because it’s there and gone.

I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

Honestly there’s nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.

Black people need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own economy and putting money behind candidates.

I love participatory media, collective knowledge systems, user-generated content and the like, and spent much of my life and career participating in them and making them.

I like to watch teams who play well, ball on the floor, ball to feet, playing well as a collective.

I’m afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.

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.

Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

I’m really lucky to have colleagues in the White House press corps who are both amazing mothers and amazing journalists. Their collective wisdom has proven invaluable in my own journey.

Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

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

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

If someone says ‘grunge’ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

I support collective bargaining everywhere.

Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.

Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‘we’ rather than the ‘I.’

An election is a collective call to wisdom and a collective call to action. It represents a renewal and a recommitment to the goals and hopes of a shared and egalitarian society. It represents the diverse and yet singular urges of the people and the Republic of India. This makes the very act of voting a sacred act.

America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

I think it’s so important to think about the basic human rights of others and to use our collective voices, minds and bodies to lift those people up and bring about change.

Teams are a collective expression.

Is it possible that the collective global psyche of the world is like an overloaded modem and can no longer meaningfully communicate, comprehend, or listen to anything or anyone else?

There’s lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it’s an inspiring rally point.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there’s what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. ‘Did you see Jay Leno last night?’

Our collective scientific knowledge of COVID-19 continues to grow.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

Unfortunately, I can’t sing or play any instruments. But, I love Collective Soul. They’ve got some good music.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

Each player has this quality, this characteristic to help the team as a collective. For me, that is very important.

When Boston harnesses the collective energy, activism, and joy of all our communities, we will make the change we need and deserve – at scale and at street level.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

As an artist, I’ve always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I’m trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole – kind of the collective us, I guess.

Sometimes it takes time to become part of the collective unconscious, just like ‘Fanboys’ did. Going into that movie, I said to myself that if you were a ‘Star Wars’ fan, you were going to love that movie. It’s an homage to everything science-fiction, but especially ‘Star Wars.’

Example and general milieu, once considered so important in the nurture of children, are sacrificed on the altars of the false god we call free choice but which imprisons us all in a collective moral paralysis and delivers an anarchy that the State itself shrinks from challenging.