“Don't do for a group what a group can do for itself.”
Source: Let's Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done
“Once you’re in the circus you’re all in the circus, and of course it turns out that they are real people too.”
Source: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
“Endoreality, which assigns all ownership, virtue, credit and victimhood to the endo-ideal and all vice, guilt and punishment to the negative image, acts to shield the endo-ideal from their own guilt and persecute the negative image. Endoreality is the primary tool of tyranny and the means to keep the world in chains of our own creation.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“Always hold fast to the quiet assurance that greater things are yet to unfold.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The most dangerous time in any endogroup occurs on its destruction.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“it’s three strikes and you’re out of the union”
Source: The Ghost Therapist...And Other Grand Delights
“Faced with their confused glances and naive questions, I saw that there indeed was, between the writers and that public, however benevolent and sympathetic, a visible barrier. The audience simply did not have enough background information to comprehend what the writers sitting in front of them on the podium were saying.
Confronted with such a lack of understanding, I felt that I had no other choice but to hang on to 'my' group, the writers from Eastern Europe. At least they knew what I was talking about; at least we understood each other's problems, if that was of any comfort to a single one of us. And in any case, even if I had loudly screamed that I didn't want to belong to any group at all, the audience would have put me with them. Perhaps for the first time I became aware of how tired I was of constantly being pushed back into 'my place' every time I made an attempt to break out of it.”
Source: Café Europa: Life After Communism
“The United groups always overcome scatters.”
“Solidarity is great for a group that needs to work in unison or march into battle. Solidarity engenders trust, teamwork, and mutual aid. But it can also foster groupthink, orthodoxy, and a paralyzing fear of challenging the collective. Solidarity can interfere with a group's efforts to find the truth”
Source: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
“It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.”
Source: Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good