Top 420 Collective Quotes

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.
Stanislav Grof
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.
David Icke
Americans enjoy the exciting, cinematic vision of a squad of muscle-bound Goliath boasting Olympian speed, strength, and precision – a group whose collective success is the inevitable consequence of the individual strengths of its members and the masterful planning of a visionary commander.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei
My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it’s the behaviors that we’re in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day.
Chris Jordan
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.
Jonathan Sacks
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
Tony Campolo
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
Carl Jung
The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Whenever I speak, I talk to the collective consciousness of my audience.
Sixto Rodriguez
I’ve never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Michael Heisley
I think people have to realize that – and basketball fans do, Lakers fans do – that we have to operate under the rules of the collective bargaining agreement, which means you can’t just go and grab every player that you want.
Jeanie Buss
My brothers and I early on said to one another that, as a collective, we could do far more than any of us could do individually.
Ivanka Trump
We must work together to unlearn the biases that make our foundation week, and rebuild a foundation of collective care, love, and cooperation.
Jamaal Bowman
Experience shows us that most people’s votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.
David Horsey
Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It’s how Obama gets elected, by the way.
Rush Limbaugh
Women’s health is not a niche issue – it impacts everyone in some way. That is why a collective effort to improve awareness and understanding of menstrual hygiene is key to closing the gender health gap.
Shabana Azmi
Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
Hilary Mantel
The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
S. J. Rozan
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.
Mikhail Bakunin
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
Marshall McLuhan
There can be no debate that we possess a collective moral responsibility to leave a better world for our children rather than a devastated planet stripped of its resources.
Tulsi Tanti
I’m a novelist, a critic, an essayist – I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It’s a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
Walter Kirn
Each year, the State of the Union reflects the priorities of the current administration – and it provides the American people with a collective moment to reflect on the strength and security of our country.
Abigail Spanberger
I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a use

I won’t compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
Lewis Thomas
Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It’s the only way we move forward.
Pramila Jayapal
With ‘Luke Cage,’ we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.
Cheo Hodari Coker
Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.
Adrian Grenier
Imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community.
Eula Biss
Connected to the collective heart, you can be certain in every cell of your being that you are never alone, and you will experience the grace, guidance and ease that comes when you are one with all there is.
Debbie Ford
While there should be collective efforts to increase tech inclusion overall, the industry must work to specifically attract and retain women of color.
Kimberly Bryant
I’m just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
David Letterman
Nobody really needs a painting. It’s something you kind of create value for in a way that you don’t with a company. It’s an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.
Larry Gagosian
The collective comes before the individual.
David Luiz
I personally feel like the end product is always better when you can make a collective. It’s like a band. You can have a bunch of individual great musicians, but when you come together, there’s a sound that it creates that you couldn’t do on your own.
Nahnatchka Khan
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
John McCain
ROI is full of talented entrepreneurs and professionals, and we want to help each of them tap into the incredible power the collective has to offer and to contribute what they can.
Lynn Schusterman
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals – as Marx averred – is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.
Will Self
Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result.
Alan Siegel
The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.
Isabelle Kocher
Today’s message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.
Javier Solana
The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
Narendra Modi
All the players have this responsibility of playing for the collective and also being individuals with some specific characteristics.
Tite
Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.
Petr Cech
The NRA is a true grass-roots organization, and the collective power of its membership is simply unparalleled.
Thom Tillis
Football is a collective game, not an individual game.
Zico
The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
Tariq Ramadan
I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths.
Eugene Ionesco
There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
Satya Nadella
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. There’s an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.
Tatiana Maslany
Foreigners may be admitted to citizenship by naturalization, either collectively or individually. Collective naturalization may occur when a foreign territory and its inhabitants are transferred to the United States.
Charles A. Beard