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“The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'”

Way Children Said Ideas School Lost President Interest Attitude Teacher Groups Example Offers Unions Dare Dues Protest New Ideas Representing Federation Teachers Unions

Author:Mitt Romney

“We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity and purpose.”

Giving Purpose Groups Identity Belonging Constructs Worldview Belonging To A Group

Author:Carmen Lawrence

“School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.”

Men Whole School Class Teacher Groups Stupid Workers Ignorant School Teachers

Book:The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.”

People Two War Real Hands Political Groups Economic Sake Significance Opposing Robbers

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“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.”

Given Millions Groups Circumstances Mass Belonging Small Groups Propagandist

Book:Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder

Source: Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder

“One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.”

Want Ideas Body Bits Differences Focus Groups Individuality Crowds Specificity

Author:Ross Bleckner

“I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.”

Knows Doe Country Government Views Environment Groups Environmental Adversaries

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.”

Thinking Use Religion Religious Groups Movement Products Spread Ideology Contagious Skillful Charismatic Evangelists

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I keep a creative group around me.”

Creative Groups

Author:Theophilus London

“The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.”

“After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.”

Littles Doe Real House Groups College Folks Intellect Coffee Pursue Occupation Nightclubs Complexion Real Work Coffee Houses

Author:Marshall Brickman

“When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.”

“All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.”

Ends Might Law Strong Waiting Interest Groups Crime Possibility Weak Leaving Circles Arise Pursue Decent Ethical Norm Cowardly

Book:Brute Orbits

Source: Brute Orbits

“Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause.”

People Feelings Certain Individual Causes Enemy Groups Media Type Guilt Dues Abnormal

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.”

Able Moving Turns Next Games Term Memories Decision Emotion Practice Groups Pages Short Term Short Term Memory

Author:Randy Carlyle

“There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.”

Years Interest Rooms Break Groups Standing Vote Clinton Democrat Thirty Thirty Years Credentials Interest Groups

Author:Calvin Jillson

“I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.”

Together Black White Race Groups Pride Friends Concerned Regard Clubs American Society Hypocritical Anglo Saxon

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.”

People Turns Groups Conversation Equal Intelligent Factors Distribution Predicting

Author:Alex Pentland

“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.”

Ifs Men Should Long Country Government Would Be Law Force Powerful Doubt Groups Judging Citizens Safe Constitution Court Threat Neighbor Command Entitled Prominent Unruly Boisterous

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.”

Long Soul States Night Stars Sides Race Behinds Groups Mankind Pages British Tyranny Conquer Destroying Rescue Shattered Dutch Barbarism Unbroken Norwegians Long Nights Belgians

Author:Winston Churchill

“When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?”

People Ideas Groups Separating

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.”

Doe States Used Religious Groups Relation Believer Favors Amendments Adversaries Handicaps

Author:Hugo Black

“Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.”

Ideas Political Groups Office Addiction Political Groups

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.”

Form Names Decision Groups Organization Decision Making Propose

Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.”

People Want Made Matter Seems Left Trouble Groups Ought Politician Safe Negative Sticks Lists Instance Target Unfair Say Anything

Author:Andy Rooney

“There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.”

People Individual Groups Streets Luck Ill Permanent Miami Mentally Ill Dwellers Single People

Book:Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

Source: Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

“The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!”

Men Groups Kingdoms One Man Kingdom Of God

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.”

Character Action Leadership Leader Groups

Author:Vince Lombardi

“I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.”

Writing Play Guy Song Gone Groups Tables Yesterday Restaurants Spain Violin Walrus

Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.”

Ifs Thinking Children Book Care Focus Failing Groups Mines Proud Succeed Research Don't Care Honestly I Don't Care My Children Children's Books Market Research Focus Groups

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.”

Thinking Groups Reputation Shy Elusive Outspoken Being Shy

Author:Stevie Jackson

“I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.”

Reading Groups Grew Grew Up Biographies Reading Biographies

Author:Stevie Jackson

“Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.”

Way Looks Kind Doe Art Faces Certain Pieces Groups Music Is Ugly Mediums Visuals Your Face Brutal Volume Listeners Obscure Visual Art

Author:David Byrne

“Nothing bonds a group of people better when they are thrown into a situation where they have no idea what's going on and what's going to happen.”

People Ideas Happens Situation Groups No Idea Thrown

Author:Michael Stahl-David

“At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We'd love to see this activity.”

Way Groups Building Activity

Author:David Gelernter

“I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!”

Stills Age Groups Peers Notches Top Notch

Author:Portia de Rossi

“It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.”

“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.”

People Thinking Way Mean Has Beens Ideas Happens Natural Powerful Trouble Groups Wings Surprising Right Wing Subordinates Subordination

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.”

Needs Interest Groups Special Special Interests Interest Groups Special Interest Groups

Author:Eva Longoria

“If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.”

Ifs Political Used Social Groups Minutes Security Solve Rhetoric Social Security Pleasantries Political Rhetoric

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Our people are working overtime. I say "our people": our federal agencies in this regard. And that I'm confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups.”

People Way Groups Regard Terrorist Agency Protected Terrorist Groups

Author:Hugh Shelton

“One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. The scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: The light was bright. Then a second moth went to examine it. He, too, came back with an observation: The light was hot. Finally a third moth volunteered to go. When he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. He was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light.”

Done Light Night Groups Members Understood Thirds Hot Checks Observation Burning Flames Description Candle Shelves Consumed One Night Flew Moths Puzzled Scouting

Author:Elif Safak

“Nigel Farage and Sean Hannity is like a super group of idiots.”

Groups Idiot Sean

Author:Russell Brand

“It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It’s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It’s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.”

World Trying Eye Opportunity Creative Groups Capacity Colleagues Marketplace Improbable Appreciative

Author:David Cooperrider

“A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.”

Ifs Feels States Would Be Certain Left United Numbers United States Groups Movement Students Wings China Progressive Left Wing Progressive Movement

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.”

Country Might Happened Groups Century Particular Committed Missionary Tribes Outlook Statesmen Nineteenth Century Resemblance Quaint African Tribes

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts - and the traditional persecution of men for their religion... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences.”

“The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.”

Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

“I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.”

Whole Values Groups Setting Settings Labels Enterprise Irrelevant

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

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