#collective

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#books #collective #curtains #dignity #drawn

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#collective #country #erase #genocide #iran

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#actually #age #always #back #band

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#collective #madness #our #vast

There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you. ↗

— Jack Layton

#believe #build #canada #challenges #change

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. ↗

— Ang Lee

#age #became #collective #event #glorified

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#collective #masses #only #organizer #press

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. ↗

— David Letterman

#i #just #make #trying #unconscious

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge. ↗

— James Levine

#collective #communication #day #emerge #every