“The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.” DifferentEnoughIndividualOpinionNewsCollectivesRemarkableColorfulLegion Author:William Safire
“There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.” HumansWellsFactsLightValuesIndividualOpinionSadnessHuman LifeCollectivesCheerfulnessIncompetentSomberValue Of Human Life Book:Suicide Source: Suicide
“In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.” YearsMindHumansStatesUseOpinionJudgmentConceptsPatternsLabelsCollectivesHuman MindPossessedConditioning Author:Eckhart Tolle