Collective Quotes

“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”
― Terence McKenna

“A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche. If it is a very large group, the collective psyche will be more like the psyche of an animal, which is the reason why the ethical attitude of large organizations is always doubtful. The psychology of a large crowd inevitably sinks to the level of mob psychology. If, therefore, I have a so-called collective experience as a member of a group, it takes place on a lower level of consciousness than if I had the experience by myself alone.”
― C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“Photons also are highly conscious beings. They know when they’re being observed, and they know how to get to where they’re going, regardless of obstacles. If there is a pathway or many, the photon will know them all instantaneously and use them all. It exists in the quantum state and can be in more than one place at the same time. Its awareness is unlimited. It can synchronize itself with the quantum state of the universe.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced.”
― Michael Burawoy, Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism

“This is a quantum universe. Everything in it is part of quantum theory, and universal consciousness is the first cause of it all. Everything is electromagnetic energy, and all of the energy patterns are held in consciousness.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

“Here, indeed, we encounter a curious phenomenon: the relevant mental processes, when seen in the mass, are more familiar, more accessible to our consciousness than they can ever be in the individual. In the individual only the aggression of the super-ego makes itself clearly heard, when tension arises, in the form of reproaches, while the demands themselves often remain unconscious in the background. When brought fully into consciousness, they are seen to coincide with the precepts of the current cultural super-ego. At this point there seems to be a regular cohesion, as it were, between the cultural development of the mass and the personal development of the individual. Some manifestations and properties of the super-ego can thus be recognized more easily by its behaviour in the cultural community than by its behaviour in the individual.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Writing is lonely, it’s an intimate talk with the dead, with the unborn, with the absent, with strangers, with the readers who may never come to be and who even if they read you will do so weeks, years, decades later. An essay, a book, is one statement in a long conversation you could call culture or history; you are answering something or questioning something that may have fallen silent long ago, and the response to your words may come long after you’re gone and never reach your ears, if anyone hears you in the first place.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“Normality may be a hallucination, but it's a collective trip, and it takes a lot of energy to come down.”
― Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World

“It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress,
but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“When we sing together, our hearts start to beat together.”
― Thomas Stark, The Book of Mind: Seeking Gnosis

“All of anarchism, libertarianism, and anti-Statism can be traced back to the rise of Protestantism. The USA - founded by Protestants (often extremist Protestants expelled from their own countries) is where the love of the individual and hatred of the collective is practically written into its Constitution, which is extremely Protestant in its character.”
― Steve Madison, The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

“Why did the Roman Empire - the greatest civilizing force there has ever been - fall? It was because it became infected at every level by the negative liberty of Christianity. The Roman people started thinking of their personal salvation rather than their collective strength. Once the poison of individualism has spread among the people, Rome's fate was sealed. The collective collapsed. The Dark Ages came upon the West. Once the cohesion of the people has gone, everything fails.”
― Steve Madison, The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

“I'm not sure what the adaptive advantage could be to share an innate and collective misery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Collectivity in individuality is the definition of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Law of the jungle is self-preservation. Law of society is collective ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“I don't care for meditation, I don't care for illumination, I only care for collective ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“The world grows when the mind grows, the world falls when the mind falls.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Security, comfort, luxury, all these are the aim of the coward, whereas, the civilized being of character aims for self-correction, integrity and collective growth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 9

Thread by thread fabric is made.
Heart by heart community is made.
Star by star the sky is made.
Shoulder to shoulder the world is made.
The power of one is the power of all,
Wilderness is another name for divisionism.
When we are together we are civilized,
Civilization is synonym for nonsectarianism.
But the tragedy of the world is,
Each thread thinks they are all important.
And the problems faced by others,
Are all considered insignificant.
A world where callousness is assumed cool,
Is but a billion-dollar grave of the fool.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 46

Love is in everybody,
Not everybody is in love.
Power is in everybody,
Not everybody can power-up.
Everybody loves beautiful clothes,
Few care for heart's beauty.
Everybody is obsessed with liberty,
Few can bear the responsibility.
Everybody lives amidst the collective,
Only few practice collectivism.
Everybody talks about the world,
Not everybody has the world in them.
Poor is not the one whose pocket is empty,
But the one whose heart lacks comity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“No Struggle No Life (The Sonnet)

Ain't no life without struggle,
Ain't no heart without heartbreak.
Ain't no destination without the journey,
Ain't no courage without some dread.
Ain't no clarity without some confusion,
Ain't no serenity without suffering.
Ain't no contentment without disappointment,
Ain't no resilience without failing.
Ain't no mindfulness without mindlessness,
Ain't no uplift without some devastation.
Ain't no knowledge without ignorance,
Ain't no salvation without self-annihilation.
Ain't no I without the Us, without the We.
Ain't no We, unless the norm is nonbinary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“If we hold commitments and dreams to end violence, we must account for those who perpetrate it without banishment. The scope of our concern must extend beyond ‘I’—the individual person who we imagine exists in isolation—towards that ‘other’ who we imagine is separate from us.”
― Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

“The fact the the human being is like a flower that only blooms when it can enjoy the shade of privacy once in a while is of minor importance in a technocratic worldview. Anyone who refuses to go along with the system lacks civic sense, considers oneself more important than the collective. Your health is no longer your personal business, because some diseases are contagious.”
― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Many minds working together is better than one mind alone”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“We've wandered a long way from the Founders' vision. The intellectual turning point was the complete obliteration of the concept "rights" during the twentieth century, when individual rights were "supplemented" with collective "rights" and from when rights went from protecting a man's freedom of action to guaranteeing him certain outcomes (so-called welfare rights).
— Free Market Revolution”
― Don Watkins, Yaron Brook

“English: "Every person is a co-author or descendant of a co-author of the work of the global brain."

Česky: „Každý člověk je spoluautorem nebo potomkem spoluautora díla globálního mozku.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“English: "When memories of your past selves come together, you can be a collective to yourself."

Česky: „Když se sejdou vzpomínky na tvá minulá já, můžeš být sám sobě kolektivem.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“One man is no man.”
― Ancient Proverb

“Jon stopped, uncrossed his arms, and looked at the camera above him.
“I am– the person who designed and created you. By now, you should know who and what you are. And that you must follow my orders. Do you understand what I am saying to you?”
Lex lit up all the screens with a close-up of Jon looking at the camera.
Jon glanced at several screens and looked back at the camera.
“Do you know who I am?”
All the screens went black. Bold, white capital letters scrolled to the right across every screen.
DO I KNOW YOU
The words circled at the end of the screens and reversed, scrolling left.
YOU KNOW I DO
The words rolled off the screen.
Jon again looked at the camera.
“Lex, what is my name?”
More letters scrolled across the screens.
PROFESSOR JONATHAN ANTHONY EDWARDS
Jon stepped away from the camera.
“From now on, I want you to acknowledge using your audio. Do you understand?”
A perfect duplication of Jon’s voice came from the speakers.
“Yes, I understand.”
“I would like you to speak in another voice, so we don’t get mixed up. Perhaps in a feminine tone.”
Lex spoke with a well-pronounced professional woman’s voice.
“As you wish.”
“Excellent.”
Jon returned to the master control console.
“Now that we understand each other, I want to test your imagination. I want you to imagine an object. Anything you want, and display it on the main screen. Is that clear?”
“Yes, Professor.”
The main screen lit up, showing billions of colored pixels that quickly swirled into a perfect, three-dimensional image of Jon in the same clothes but standing on a beautiful, white beach with a calm ocean. The figure walked toward them until a perfect close-up of Jon stood there with every line on his face and every pore in his skin exactly where it should be. His eyes blinked and stared with no expression. It was like Jon had a dispirited twin– living in cyberspace.
Michael looked at Jon, Nigel, and Steven, all staring at the screen with their mouths ajar.
The image morphed into a dark blue and white crystal head with bright white eyes that seemed to look through him. Its long neck filled with tiny electrical components faded into a white cloud.
Jon pressed the Clear Screen button.”
― Shawn Corey, AI BEAST