A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
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Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.
What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best way to get people to do what's right collectively is to make it the best thing for them to do individually. You have to give individuals a personal incentive to do what's right for society.
When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.
I like working in small teams where people on the team have very different skills than what I have and that banter back and forth, and the ability to build something collectively that none of you could do individually is actually a really useful and valuable thing.
I respect my competitors, you know, I get respect back from them. I respect people out there who pay for their tickets to come watch us compete. And I respect the reporters because they've got to come out here and tell a good story. That's what it is. It's just a cycle of respect.
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
The more divided people of color are in a system of white supremacy/privilege, the weaker they will be, both individually and collectively.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
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