#collective

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#collective #constitutionally #corpses #incapable #producing

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? ↗

— Andy Stern

#always #bargaining #change #collective #collective bargaining

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#brain #brains #clever #collectively #endeavors

But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone. To be a witness or bystander is not a value-free choice but, inadvertently, a moral position; and in this sense the 'guilt' of people who live with the memory of crimes committed by members of their families, or communities, has been unwittingly extended to everyone who watches appalling pictures on the news. ↗

— Erna Paris

#justice #war-crimes #witness #family

I believe in the power of love, and planting positive thought seeds into the collective consciousness. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#consciousness #planting #positive #power-of-love #seeds

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. ↗

— Robin Cook

#action #agreement #britain #collective #commit

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#also #based #collective #devising #gave

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#country #death #dedicated #education #fine

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

#collective consciousness #consciousness #core #dare #deeply

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#athenians #bear #burdens #collectively #even