#collective

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

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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. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

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

— Mario Monti

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We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#charisma #collectively #fall #hard #influenced

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing. ↗

— Charles Munch

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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people. ↗

— Huey Newton

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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. ↗

— Don Nickles

#chief #collective #defense #federal #federal government