Top 1200 Collective Memory Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

There can be no debate that we possess a collective moral responsibility to leave a better world for our children rather than a devastated planet stripped of its resources.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

If a young girl feels comfortable to pursue her passion, we as a collective will be stronger and more equipped to face the challenges life presents.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

While there should be collective efforts to increase tech inclusion overall, the industry must work to specifically attract and retain women of color.

If corporations are to remain a legitimate instrument of collective action, they must concern themselves directly with the well-being of those party to, and affected by, their actions.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

I am a firm believer that transparency goes hand in hand with collective intelligence.

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

At State Bank, all decisions are collective decisions. I have created the comfort zone.

War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

At the very end, without memory we are nothing. The things you say; the way you feel; the way you act in certain situations... it's because you have a memory of something. Imagine we are building the biggest, most solid room that we could ever have. And sometimes you need to work on it, because thoughts turn into memories. Sometimes they will start to create dreams and realities, and what actually happened changes inside yourself during the years. I think that's how to preserve reality; we change it so it stays alive. The thoughts may change, but the feeling remains.

Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

Honestly there's nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Our collective military service is a special part of our family's story in America.

There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

The power of Liverpool Football Club is the collective. We always do everything together; this is our power.

Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will.

You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

A peaceful world requires collective measures for the prevention of war, international cooperation to solve economic and social problems, and respect for human rights.

Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.