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«Duty is not collective; it is personal»
Author: Calvin Coolidge (President) | About: Duty | Keywords: collective
«I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.»
«In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction.»
«Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | Keywords: collective
«Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.»
«If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing.»
«It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual»
«Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.»
«Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.»
«In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped.»

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