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“I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.”

Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

“We, who think like animals living in small groups, must structure a global world. We believe in universal human rights and believe racism and war are wrong. On the other hand, it is our nature to be cooperative and loving almost exclusively with the members of the group to which we feel we belong.”

Thinking World Feels Believe Humans War Hands Animal Rights Groups Members Racism Universal Structure Human Rights Small Groups Cooperatives

Author:Frans de Waal

“Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.”

Thinking Humans Different Body Individual Christianity Groups Members Mere Lists Organs Items Contributing

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.”

Feels Groups Members Envy Close Friends Unendurable

Author:Alain de Botton

“If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.”

Ifs Able Leader Groups Members Weak

Author:William Schutz

“Though representatives of many ethnic groups came together in the United States, English became their common language. Apparently, this was a natural choice. One can imagine what would have happened if members of each nation moving to the U.S. had spoken only their own tongues and refused to learn English.”

Ifs States Together Moving Choices Language Nations Natural United Common United States Imagine Happened Groups Members Tongue Representatives Ethnic Groups Common Language

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“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.”

Individual Numbers Rights Groups Members Collectives

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.”

Needs Bigs Social Differences Church Lines Groups Activity Members Ideals Clubs Spread Banking Expanding Peril Crossings Epidemics Small Changes Cognizant

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.”

Needs Lying Felt Differences Ability Groups Awareness Healthy Members Organization Acknowledge Conform Unhealthy

Book:Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society

Source: Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society

“Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.”

Dream Reality Vision Groups Members

Author:Phil Jackson

“The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.”

Needs May Fighting Strong Grows Common Groups Members Ideals

Book:On aggression

Source: On aggression

“First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.”

Firsts Individual Groups Members Impression Mask Variation

Author:Carolyn Hax

“A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.”

Important Individual Goal Results Groups Team Members Collectives

Book:The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable

“Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters.”

Should Helping Groups Members

Book:No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

“I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.”

People Thinking Different Reason Happens Interesting Groups Members Backgrounds California Exploring Cult Different Backgrounds

Author:Brit Marling

“My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.”

Ends Artist Certain Decision Deals Groups Worst Members Musician Aspect Independent Sake Compromise Best Business Business Decisions

Author:Ziggy Marley

“Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.”

Groups Citizens Members Gun Criminals Association Public Service Rifles

Author:Woody Allen

“Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.”

Feels Stills Matter Problem Seems Order Groups Gay Members Bottom Superiors No Problem Pecking Order

Book:Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country

Source: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country

“Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks of human beings throughout the world. Their major assignment is to prevent God from being glorified in their territory, which they do through directing the activity of lower-ranking demons.”

Source: Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare: Wrestling with Dark Angels

“At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.”

Lasts Choices Groups Members Dues Access Dialogue One Time Loved Ones Cult Resorts Involvement Involuntary Reluctance

Author:Rick Ross

“Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.”

Done Happens Three Groups Succeed Members Sick Committees Absent

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.”

People Mind Different Purpose Goal Groups Talent Members Bases Serving Surround Associates Temperament Surround Yourself Surround Yourself With People

Author:Jeff Olson

“If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.”

People Ifs Wells Looks Use Community Groups Gay Drug Taxes Members Associates Going To Work Despised Using Me Gay Community Paying Taxes Methamphetamine

Author:Carl Hart

“I am saying that I am trying to minimize the donations to these groups by talking to diplomats. The transparency bill also has the purpose of enabling the Israeli public and members of Knesset to know whose interests certain organizations represent.”

Knows Trying Purpose Certain Interest Talking Groups Members Organization Bills Israeli Transparency Enabling Diplomats Donation

Author:Ayelet Shaked

“Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.”

“At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.”

“The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.”

Said Audience Groups Events Members Performances Repeats Farms Chords Ants Assassination Dallas

Author:Laura Mullen

“I don't know how (producer) Dan Harmon put that together but he did. Everyone gets along and we all babysit Chevy Chase (laughs) and it all works out. Plus we are given a lot of freedom to riff off each other and compliment each other's comedic style. The group is so talented, whether it be Donald Glover or Allison Brie and now Jim Rash who plays the Dean is finally a full member of the cast - oh my gosh, he is so funny. I call him Rumplestiltskin; he can spin comedy out of anything. I am in such a blessed situation - if only more people would watch it.”

People Ifs Knows Play Together Given Situation Watches Laughing Know How Comedy Groups Style Members Blessed Casts Work Out Producers Plus Compliment Dean Comedic Oh My Gosh Chevy Allison Brie

Author:Joel McHale

“Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.”

Real Matter Happens Action Certain Race Class Groups Members No Matter What Chosen Minorities Our Society Ladders Affirmative Action Affirmative Disadvantaged

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in the group, 'cause everybody has rewrote their sh*t except for me.”

Causes Groups Proud Members Jokes Verses Ongoing Slaughterhouses

Author:Joe Budden

“We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.”

Ifs Years Made Said Hard Shows Speak Simple Morning Study Groups Expression Quiet Members Years Ago Albums Interviews Japan Embarrassing Debut

Author:Seungri

“And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table.”

Believe Book America Beautiful Young Groups Identity Perspective Members Diversity Tables Jew Defined Orchestra Pluralism Ethnic Groups Louis Brandeis Beautiful Books

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.”

Believe War Groups College Members Degrees Gun Machines Killing University Gas Chamber Commanders College Degree Machine Guns Phds Gas Chambers

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I do not believe Federal Government fear me at all, they know the truth. They know I am not a dangerous person, they hold me as a hostage to discourage other people from possibly standing up to their valued system. In their minds, right or wrong the public is expected to lay down for them. You see examples of this, at the Ruby Ridge massacre and the Waco massacre, where they killed all those children and group members.”

“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.”

People Hard Young Poor Path Groups Youth Hard Work Walking Members Adversity Obstacles Cures Preparation Minorities Minority Groups

Author:Barbara Jordan

“The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.”

People Ifs Way Feels Whole Moments Law Groups Example Citizens Members Threat Decent Abiding Legitimacy

Author:Tony Blair

“The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.”

Facts Social Groups Birth Members Determine Primaries Constituents Birth And Death Social Groups

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.”

Men Way Humans Kind Reality Able Space White Class Knowing Groups Share Middle Quiet Safe Members Safety Deeper Access Middle Class Privileged Marginalized Safe Space

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we are not interested in the collapse of the Eurozone, but I do not rule out the possibility of decisions being made that would consolidate a group of countries equal in economic development and this, in my opinion, will lead to a consolidation of the euro. But there can also be some interim decisions in order to keep the present number of members of the Eurozone unchanged.”

“First, I would say, is ideology. I have never spoken to any member of these groups, not just ISIS, but also Al Qaeda, Shabab, etc., who wasn't driven by the ideology. Beyond that, a lot of people are wounded in some way - they've fallen out of society in some manner. All of the ones I've spoken to seem to have veered off course from lives we consider acceptable and successful. Of course, there are others like Osama bin Laden, who was a wealthy and successful businessperson.”

People Way Firsts Seems Courses Successful Groups Members Driven Ideology Fallen Etc Wealthy Als Acceptable Wounded Isis Bin Laden Al Qaeda Osama Bin Laden Successful Business

Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi

“What are a genuine pain in the ass are all the misconceptions and outright lies. I read somewhere that in 2004 I was homeless in Seattle and drinking heavily, which came as a shock since I've never been homeless and haven't had a drink since 1982. I've also heard SEVERAL times that I'm a card-carrying member of several white-supremacist groups, when the last group I belonged to was the Boy Scouts.”

Pain Lasts Lying White Boys Heard Groups Havens Drink Members Drinking Genuine Ass Cards Shock Homeless Misconception Seattle Boy Scout

Author:Jim Goad

“I'm not opposed to reaching out Hispanics. I'm all for reaching out to everybody! As Americans. Not as members of groups, and not treating people as though they're legitimate members of some grievance group, but reaching out to them as human beings.”

People Humans Human Beings Groups Members Reaching Reach Out Grievance

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor native judgment than members of better educated groups. Thus, they need stricter moral guidance from society.”

Needs Facts Poor Moral Groups Members Judgment Messages Educated African American Guidance Native Good Times Let The Good Times Roll

Author:Steve Sailer

“The members of my group are the ones who know me the best. They've watched me grow the most, so only my hyungs can see the things that other people can't. It may not just be 1 thing, but 10 other things.”

People Knows May Grows Groups Members Know Me

Author:Seungri

“Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.”

“I am a member of that small, little group that covers - I`m a member of the White House correspondents association. I go to the White House every day.”

Littles House White Groups Members White House Association

Author:Donald Trump

“I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.”

Stories Lying Artist Four Player Groups Streets Style Youth Band Members Musician Standing Performances Clean Guitar Decades Bars Parks Guitar Player Hardcore Aces Homegrown Those Who Lie

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.”

Social Groups Effects Members Complicated Oxytocin Groovy

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone.”

Groups Members Aggressive Hormones Xenophobia Cooperatives Oxytocin Parochialism

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

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