Collective Harm Quotes

When you hate, you generate a reciprocal hate. When individuals hate each other, the harm is finite; but when great groups of nations hate each other, the harm may be infinite and absolute. Do not fall back upon the thought that those whom you hate deserve to be hated. I do not know whether anybody deserves to be hated, but I do know that hatred of those whom we believe to be evil is not what will redeem mankind.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here.

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.