“I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.” ThinkingLeaderDemocracyGroupsAdvantageDependent Author:Azim Premji
“Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.” PeopleThinkingMenSometimesAudienceSeeingGroupsAdvantageSightAddressesShoutingGreat WritersGreat Wisdom Author:Wyndham Lewis
“But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.” WholeRealityTogetherOrderEvilDoubtGroupsTeachingSourceAdvantageErrorsCleverDoctrineUncertaintyFirmRemedyArrangementsExaminationSystematicBrethrenSteadfastArtificeVery CleverConnexion Author:Pope Pius X
“We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.” SometimesWholeKnowingGroupsFitAdvantageOur TimeWho We AreBetterment Author:Meryl Streep
“It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.” PeopleStatesHandsSeemsActionChoicesWhiteUnitedNumbersUnited StatesGroupsRacismAdvantageDemocraticMalesAvailableMythPropsWhite PrivilegeSmall NumbersMeritocracy Author:Peggy McIntosh
“It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family.... The advantage of this view is that traditional and nontraditional families can all be seen to serve the interests of children. Children can also feel comfortable with an approved family form, even if it is not traditional.” IfsFeelsChildrenImportantReasonFormInterestViewsGroupsComfortableAdvantagePracticalsTraditionalPsychologicalStableApproved Author:Sandra Scarr
“I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.” LosesRoomsGroupsAdvantageAgingFacultyPeersPassing AwayPorridgeDecrepitPeer Group Author:Woody Allen
“I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university, the university artists really acted as a group. The others didn't so much, but the university people took advantage of that and behaved like a group, rather than as individuals. They had a lot of power that way.” PeopleWayStillsArtistIndividualSawsGroupsAdvantageUniversityHated Author:Tom Robbins
“Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.” PeopleWritingTryingEndsGroupsAdvantageMethodSentencesCollaborationEfficientThings In Life Author:Scott Adams
“It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.” IfsShouldTryingTwoImportantHelpingMovingPoliticalDifficultDifferencesStepsEnvironmentViolenceGroupsMilitaryWillingBattleAdvantageIraqMissionsMoving ForwardThriveResolveCombatIsisCreepsEvaluateExtremistKurdsShiaRiftPolitical EnvironmentPolitical DifferencesExtremist Groups Author:David Adam Smith