Collective Quotes

For centuries we've treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good... [A model of shared equity] will mean that families, especially white families who are homeowners, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one we currently have.

For the nation to live, the tribe must die.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

There's a lot we can achieve if we work together.

I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

Comprise should not be a dirty word. It should be what we all strive to achieve jointly.

It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful...so they can realize their ambitions, so they can earn good livings, so they can accumulate the material things that this society bestows. Those are worthwhile goals. But it is not enough to progress as individuals while our friends and neighbors are left behind

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

We are all gathered to the same fold.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

And the whole is greater than the part.

When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you.

Somehow economic growth and prosperity, political democracy and freedom are not enough—that we lack at some core level of meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively, that sense that our lives are part of some greater effort, that we are connected to one another, that community means that we have a place where we belong no matter who we are.

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.

I am very distrustful of collectivist ideologies of any kind

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

The collective operates a barber shop, giving free haircuts and (if desired) free shaves twice weekly. Money is abolished and has been replaced by vouchers. Food, meat, and all other provisions are distributed in quantity when plentiful or equitably rationed when in short supply. The collective allows 5 liters of wine per person weekly. Medical care and medicines are free. Even postage stamps are free. There is no rent. Housing, building repairs, water, gas, electricity -- all are supplied gratis, not only to the collectivists but also to the “individualists.” The village generates its own power from a waterfall. There is no scarcity of clothing. By arrangement with a Barcelona textile plant, oil is exchanged for cloth, dresses, etc. Garments are distributed in rotation to 40 persons daily.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.