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“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”

Self Whole Individual Loses Forget Sacrifice Society Produce Losing Impulse Mask Collectives Willingness Forget It Readiness Unwanted Compact Revulsion Slough

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Kind Fall Individual Effort Power Failing Society Collectives Individualism Fulfilled Wholeness Fulfilment

Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

“I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.”

People Should Individual Society Collectives Individualism Singleness

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”

Men Mind Individual Responsibility Moral Society Morality Anger Guilt Democratic Meaningful Punishment Compromise Distinction Collectives Meaningless Individual Responsibility

Book:The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

“Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.”

Children Happens Results Compassion Violence Society Security Citizens Our Children Safety Investment Vulnerable My Children Collectives Our Society Consensus Safety And Security

Author:Nelson Mandela

“The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society, the collective has no soul; the soul belongs to the individual. Hence, those who belong to the collective are destroying every possibility of being souls.”

Knows Soul Remember Individual Society Stupid Possibility Divine Fool Remains Collectives Destroying Collectivity

Author:Rajneesh

“Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.”

World Way Self Found Individual Term Interest Deals Successful Progress Society Succeed Collectives Self Interest Outside World Collective Good

Author:James Fallows