“Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.” PeopleShouldMindHelpingTodayLawSocialGroupsGayProtectPaperDiscriminationVulnerableSocial ChangeGay PeopleFramedRacial DiscriminationBarometer Author:Bayard Rustin
“The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.” KnowsMenMindDoePlayYoungViewsPowerfulRolesGroupsEffectsInternetTerrorismMilesSignificantViolentPreachingPromotionMiles AwayYoung MindsViolent Man Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.” IfsWorldMindPlayWholeIndividualMagicGroupsObjectsThis WorldTricksImpressionObservationColourScopeChamberTextureImpressionism Author:Walter Pater
“Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.” WayMindFirstsProblemJobsLastsNationsGoalEducationSupportGroupsProveFindingsSummerFirst TimeDollarsEducationalDividesInstructionOutstandingLast Summer Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.” FeelsMindPersonsLawPracticeRightsGroupsCreatingIncreaseBoundariesOppressionSecureLiberationImpulseBarriersParadoxRestrictionProtective Author:Jacques Barzun
“There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.” MindKindClassStruggleGroupsModernTypeHatredCreedsModern SocietyClass Struggle Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.” ThinkingShouldMindMeanStatesEarthUnitedUnited StatesGroupsProudLuckyPopulationExcuseWelcomeBest ThingsDamnBe YouOutrageousExcuse MeSmall Minds Author:Lauren Bacall
“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.” MindHumansGivenUnderstandingInterestingConsciousnessStudyGroupsDrugApproachResearchSubstanceHuman MindAbandonedGiven UpPsychedelic Author:Stanislav Grof
“The media is all over this Oui interview that Arnold did 25 years ago. Now, he's admitted he smoked pot, had group sex and didn't mind dating a girl that was out of shape and kind of fat if she satisfied him sexually. So, his handlers have stopped comparing him to Reagan and started comparing him to Clinton.” IfsYearsMindKindGirlSexGroupsMediaShapesYears AgoDatingClintonSatisfiedFatsCompareInterviewsPotSexually Author:Bill Maher
“Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.” MenMindWarLanguageGroupsDiseaseWeaponsTerritorySlogansEpidemicsSusceptibleInfectious Diseases Author:Arthur Koestler
“But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.” MenMindIndividualBrainGroupsAverageIndividualityCompromiseCollectivesAgreementAttributesFountainheadCollective Consciousness Book:Ayn Rand Reader Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.” GivingMindLongLinesGroupsDangerIgnoranceComfortBandImportancePrejudiceHarmDrawingCirclesPeace Of MindVillageMentalityTrustedHuntersDiggingMembershipSmall GroupsCircle Of FriendsGlobal VillageMinefieldsHunter Gatherers Author:Jane Goodall
“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.” WritingMindHas BeensTwoCountryStoriesSeemsBrainPiecesGroupsWeekCenturyTenLimitsFilledChinaDataBordersTraveledAnalystsCrawlingFiling Author:Susanna Kaysen
“Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.” IfsMindMayDoePerfectPrinciplesFailingGroupsMastersMembersLettersHarmonyInstructionPerfect HarmonyMastermind Author:Napoleon Hill
“When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.” IfsMindMadeWantedReadingLeftGroupsFrontsApprovedIowa Author:Daniel Woodrell
“I just had a son and had to take him to the paediatrician and he measured his head and apparently he's in a group in which only 14 per cent of the population have a bigger head than him. Then she said: "Do you mind if I measure your head?" I said: "Go ahead." And she was shocked, because less than one per cent of the world's population has a bigger head than mine. So I guess that means I'm pretty full of myself. Or that I have a huge brain.” IfsWorldMindMeanSaidBrainGroupsMinesSonHugeBiggerPopulationCentsShocked Author:Jack Black
“The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.” PeopleMindLooksBigsGroupsStupidFoolTreatsIntelligentEnlightenedStupid People Author:Anuj
“I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWritingMindAbleAudienceGroupsChinaSmall Groups Author:Bei Dao
“It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?” WayMindLooksDoeDifferentEasySoundOne ThingGroupsShadowOrganizationMetaphorFamiliarVampireAgendasMisunderstood Author:Alan Ball
“That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.” PeopleMindIdeasSometimesHardTogetherBeautifulFightingGroupsTeamArgumentStonesMetaphorPassionateNoiseWorking TogetherPolishReally BeautifulTeam WorkingWorking Really Hard Author:Steve Jobs
“The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual material of what I have in mind, as well as a color spectrum of mood boards.” MindWellsShowsGoalVisionGroupsColorMaterialsCoreMoodBoardsVisualsSpectrumAestheticsCollaborators Author:Marc Forster
“It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.” MindMadePlayGuyStepsGroupsFootballNeededGoing OutStep UpGreat Football Author:Kurt Warner
“And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.” MenMindWarForceGroupsConceptsExtermination Book:East of Eden Source: East of Eden
“"[Lawyers who file class-action securities suits] is not a group you would want to marry into your family. "That said, more than half the time the people being sued by the Lerach firm are guilty of outrageous conduct. The problem is, they don't mind (suing) the other half. They are an equal opportunity litigator."” PeopleWantMindSaidProblemActionOpportunityHalfClassGroupsSecurityEqualLawyerGuiltySuitsFirmOur FamilyFilesOutrageousOther HalfEqual OpportunitySuingLitigators Author:Charlie Munger
“I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.” MindLooksDifferentRealArtistToo MuchGroupsActivityTablesDifferent ThingsInterconnected Author:Michael Shannon
“When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.” PeopleKnowsMindWellsStillsHomeArtistCoursesPartyCareersLaughingPiecesGroupsTeamChangedResponseBlowListsShouldersStayingComing HomeKnow MeGroundedMy Best FriendGroup Of Friends Author:Adele
“I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.” YearsMindLittlesMadeGroupsCoupleAnxietyHundredNervousHolocaustParanoid Author:Andy Kindler