“One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.” GivenMillionsGroupsCircumstancesMassBelongingSmall GroupsPropagandist Book:Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder Source: Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder
“I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.” UsedBoysGroupsCircumstancesAuthoritySmartExpensesBeing SmartSubversiveSmart And Funny Author:Eric Idle
“Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.” MayBeliefJusticeGroupsInternetCircumstancesPrivacyAssociationFree SpeechIndispensableDissidents Author:John Marshall Harlan II
“Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.” MayCountryEasyDifficultGroupsCircumstancesCapableExtraordinaryIranGrantsStood UpSuccessorsEthnic GroupsYugoslaviaTito Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.” PeopleWantCountryReasonGovernmentImagineGroupsCircumstancesStrongerComplexesMinoritiesOther CountriesInfluentialNostalgicCentral Government Author:Zalmay Khalilzad
“Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.” PeopleWellsBookAgeReadingLinesDealsGroupsHonestCircumstancesRelateComment Author:Darlene Love
“My purpose is to create circumstances, environments, businesses and communities where I am fully expressing my creative gifts with the intention to inspire other people to feel like they belong - first to themselves and then to a group that shares their common interest.” PeopleFeelsFirstsPurposeInterestCommunityCommonCreativeEnvironmentGroupsShareInspireCircumstancesIntentionInspire OthersCommon Interests Author:Mastin Kipp
“Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.” PeopleSometimesGroupsCircumstancesSmartSmarter Author:James Surowiecki
“People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.” PeopleIfsWould BeDifferencesRaceGroupsDogCircumstancesRaisedFewerToysFoxesAustralianEthnic GroupsTerriersRiyadh Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...” MenYearsMindMadeCountryGovernmentFacesLawCertainAsksIndividualInterestCommonNumbersGroupsStrangeDutyCircumstancesCourtNotionProfitContraryDoctrineClockCorporationsPublic InterestStatutesCommon Law Author:Robert A. Heinlein