collective quotes

• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. (Bertrand Russell) [collectivism/fear/instinct]
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle) [collectivism/wisdom/ignorance]
• The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. (Bette Davis) [collectivism]
• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious. (David Mamet) [collectivism/moment/chance/willpower]
• Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. (Lily Tomlin) [reality/collectivism]
• No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. (Elie Wiesel) [human/faith/collectivism]
• If we hit the collective nerve of the audience on that night, that they would be standing up and rushing towards the stage to hug us. (Ben Kingsley) [collectivism/night/stage]
• In some ways that's more gratifying, it requires more of your own energy and your own input, and everyone's kind of collective energy, and that's...in a way that's more gratifying. (Elijah Wood) [more/more/collectivism/more]
• I don't know. I think there's some kind of collective consciousness that gets out there and people kind of delve into the same areas at the same time. (Toni Collette) [think/collectivism/consciousness/people]
• Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve. (Peter Fonda) [remember/collectivism]
• I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. (Kathy Acker) [literature/people/collectivism/writers]

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