“Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.” ValuesIndividualConsciousnessHabitRevengeCollectivesUnconsciousnessExacting Revenge Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
“Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others.” ShouldIdeasValuesIndividualSpeakSpeechGainsConcernedDirectShould HaveCollectivesCensorshipInterchangePersonal Values Author:Charles Rembar
“Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.” PeopleLongValuesForceSocialCommunityClassHugeBehaviorCapitalismLaborFruitStriveProducersOrganizedCollectivesLong AgoPrivilegedOligarchySubjugationSocial Behavior Author:Albert Einstein
“science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.” MindLongWholeFactsPastScienceValuesIndividualResultsDependsLong TimeResearchDiscoveryEmbraceComplexesEnterpriseCollectivesExceptionInventor Book:The Simone Weil Reader Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.” SpiritualPurposeValuesIndividualChangeLosesMoralMovementMassActivismCollectivesCultCrusadesSpiritual Values Author:Rosamond Lehmann
“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