“Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.” HardIndividualDifferencesCommonDemocracyRichCoreVarietyAgreementHard CoreIndividual Differences Author:James Bryant Conant
“Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.” SelfTogetherWinningIndividualEnvironmentTeamElementsStructureAgreementAccountabilityStewardshipGlueWin Win Book:First Things First Source: First Things First
“The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself.” PeopleIfsPersonsIndividualExerciseAuthorityConcernFunctionAcknowledgeAgreementSelectedGoering Author:Hermann Goring
“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!” HumansWarEndsStatesLyingChoicesIndividualPrinciplesStruggleGroupsFieldsRevolutionDevelopmentActivityDestructionStartingLocalsCrushAgreementTyrantsInitiativeNew LifePalacesLivelyHuman Activity Author:Peter Kropotkin
“Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... A group, as such, has no rights.” ChoicesIndividualNumbersRightsGroupsMembersCollectivesAgreementApplicationFree SocietyUndertakingsIndividual RightsIndividual Choice Book:Ayn Rand Reader Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“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