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"Independence Day is at the end of the day not just another cute little '90s genre project... it's a two-and-a-half-hour clarion call on behalf of globalism, collectivism, and one-world humanism."
"If you don't help each other out, you're left alone, and we don't live that way."
"The only way these systems will end is through collectivism under an alliance among all of us, which will require that we overlook our superficial differences."
"In order for it to be progressive, we have to be more collective in our approach to things and tackle things on this systemic level."
"In individualism, the individual is more important than the group... in collectivism, the most important thing is to belong to a group and maintain harmony."
"Collectivism focuses on societal interests. It prioritizes the greater good."
"The antidote to collectivism is individualism, but it's not the individualism of the privileged person with rights; it's the terrible burden of the individual who determines that he or she will shoulder their responsibility."
"Many of our current problems can be traced back to our incorrect understandings of things like individualism and collectivism."
"In the face of isolationism, protectionism, racism - the simple concept of looking outwardly and beyond ourselves, of kindness and collectivism, might just be as good a starting point as any."
"Societies are held together by a web of social bonds that give individuals a sense of being part of a collective and engaged in a project larger than the self."
"We need to move from a me-centric culture to a we-centric culture."
"The actual best decision for the 'I' is actually the best decision for the 'we'."
"The two regimes... are rapidly evolving towards the same system—a form of oligarchical collectivism." - George Orwell
"Humanity collectivizes at that crisis moment."
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of emergency."
"Human beings are simultaneously very individualistic and very collectivist species."
"As much as we think we are a capitalist Society we have veered into this collectivism in certain markets and where it's measurable and obvious we need to point at it and say let's go fix it."
"The far left believes in collectivism through the backdoor for the purpose of creating a classless society."
"The right is motivated by belonging to a larger collective."
"Collective action is literally impossible... sometimes involuntary but often through voluntary action."
"The soviets did have that perception that human being as an individual is irrelevant and the state needs paramount."
"A cultural collective decision-making approach."
"Those ugly totems...all of these collectivist detritus...are now being exposed fully to the light."
"The African concept of success is collective."
"Nobody can even get a piece of it, that's how the collective gets down."
"Nationalism is probably the biggest obstacle to leftist collectivism out there."
"They're making sure that everywhere they have people that are committed to helping the government grow power. They don't want individualism. They want us to simply get in line."
"The left started embracing collectivist and communist ideas."
"The opposite of collectivism is not individualism, it's the family and intermediate institutions."
"We need to coalesce into a fist, respecting individuality but acting collectively."
"You may not personally find these cards salty, but you need to be aware that there are others in the greater Magic community that may find them salty."
"The magic of the Western experience has been that we created a set of foundational values, including elevating the individual above the collectivist tribe."
"Their sense of community. They think about we, not me."
"This is human decency 101, but it's certainly important if you espouse any kind of collectivist thinking."
"Collectivism rejects the creative power of man God implanted into all of us."
"The collective body is always more important than individual."
"I can think of no better illustration of what the game of basketball is about: the team, not any one individual."
"Leftism is about collectivizing our strength, not individual gain."
"One of history's biggest enemy is when you start subjugating the individual for the collective."
"That's exactly it. That's exactly it. So the way in which I've always seen it is the right being individualism, the idea that you take responsibility for yourself with the left, it's always collectivism."
"There is no you, there is no me in this, there is us."
"Fascism is the idea that the state is immortal and the people the individuals there are no individuals there are simply people that serve the state."
"You have to start demanding tangibles, you have to get on code not just with us as a collective but with yourself to understand what it is you want."
"We have to get back to the 'we-ism' and away from the 'me-ism'."
"We should always prioritize the social over the individual."
"Ubuntu means it's better to deal with the collective rather than the individual."
"A very large fraction of all intellectuals remain--not only remain, have become--more strongly anti-capitalist, have become proponents of collectivism of one form or another."
"Collectivism seems to be a particular thing that goes hand in hand with authoritarianism."
"The dynamic tension between those two [collectivism and individualism] is what creates a functioning society."
"Everything we do is extravagant. Everything we do is big. And everything we do, we do as a collective."
"For the individual, they are better off if they're able to live happily keeping big secrets, so that individual is better. But the tribe is not, and if the tribe does badly, the individuals do badly."
"If the 19th century was the century of the individual, it may be expected that this one may be the century of collectivism and therefore the century of the state."
"We are a collective. We do not leave. You do not leave."
"In music, two collective powers are liquidating an individuality past saving, but against them, only individuals are capable of consciously representing the aims of collectivity."
"Collectivism and comradely mutual aid, one for all and all for one."
"In Jewish Society, it was a collectivist society. What mattered most was the community, the needs of the people collectively."
"We understand more collectivist cultures as having pathological dependency, where they may experience normative people from our cultures as having pathological lack of attachment."
"I cannot accept that the collective should be given say over the individual."
"Weird populations focus more on individual accomplishments over collective norms."
"They understand the power of collectivism."
"I love that individualism versus collectivism theme."
"Americans seem more individualistic while I prefer the collectivist approach."
"Your life does not matter. What matters is the life of the community."
"As we strive to move forward collectively in these latter days, and try to gather Israel, I love the idea that from many, 'E Pluribus Unum', from many, we become one."
"Collecting doesn't happen in a vacuum; you're part of a community that helps each other out."
"It's worth affirming as over against the various individualist ideologies that the very form of the group and the collective is always worth celebrating."
"All intelligence is collective intelligence."
"It's blaringly obvious that when leftists speak, every single point they make is about supporting the collective, the greater good."
"Your joys are adventures of the collective; your problems are the problem of the collectivity."
"True enlightenment is collective."
"Wealth is seen as essentially collective; wealth is everyone's."
"The future is indeed a collective one."
"When there's a tension between what's good for me as an individual and what's good for us collectively, life gets interesting."
"The real revolutionary ideal is the people making the changes rather than the heroic individual."
"The future of 'we the people' in this country is to rediscover that social dimension of ourselves."
"The most important thing an individual can do is be less of an individual. Join together with other people in movements large enough to have some hope of changing the basic economic and political ground rules here."
"We believe in more collectivism... we're just trying to do whatever is viewed as good for society."
"Without accountability, we are all treading water in this murky, lukewarm, milky sea of collectivism, and nothing good comes of it."
"We're better together. That's what it's about, collectivism and unity."
"We have to be accountable to the collective, that's what it's about."
"Society's collective needs outweigh the needs of any single member of our society."
"Human beings evolved to make decisions collectively, not individually."
"The economy is not about out here and right here; it's about us in the space as a collective."
"It's about class consciousness rather than individualism."
"How do we get ourselves away from the 'me' and back to the 'we', back to the 'us'?"
"The kingdom of God is a collective reality, not this individualistic thing."
"There's so much power in oneness."
"Socialism says the community comes first, collectivism and not people over profit, not profit over people but people over profit."
"I can design the perfect society where we're all like ants; we don't have our own egos, we're a hive mind."
"Aquarius is the point in the soul's journey where the focal point moves permanently from being very ego-based to actually being very collective based."
"Collectively, we are all stronger compared to just individual."
"When you start to think of time in more collective ways, it opens up the horizon of what's possible in your and others' time together."
"History is not changed by individuals; we move forward by groups, by organizations."
"I am you, you are me, you are I, I am we, we are one."
"We have to think things more from a collective perspective rather than an individual one."
"Everything that exists is just one team, it's just one united."
"The journey of evolution is a collective one, it's a shared one, and it's not just an individual journey."
"In China, it's a more of a collective culture where people take care of each other."
"The collective stems from the individual and not the other way around."
"You cannot get collectivism without individualism."
"Strong collectivism stems from strong individualism."
"We are embracing our greatness, we are embracing the fact that collectively we are more powerful than we are all in a separate sense."
"Individualism is a luxury that we can ill-afford."
"It's all about unity, man. Listen, it's all about the collective."
"He advocated the use of force to bring order and thought nothing of subordinating the will of the individual to the collective."
"South Korean culture is more individualistic; North Korean culture is collectivist."
"In my understanding, consciousness is a kind of collective consciousness as well."
"If you have a scale from me to we, the Chinese are here, everything is we, everything is about the population, about society."
"There's a cultural value, especially in Hispanic and Latino families, where there's a collectivist point of view."
"It's good to love your country, but nationalism is a type of collectivism that can actually be a disease."
"There's this relationship between the subordination of the individual for the collective and the sovereignty of the individual like fractal sovereignty."
"We are one and all, and all in one."
"There are no men but only the great 'WE', one, indivisible, and forever."
"There is no you, there is no me, everything is us, everything is ours."
"It's a community mindset; they're not thinking about themselves as individuals."
"Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective."
"It's never about the individual; it's always about the community."
"Individuals don't count for much. It's what the group wants, what the group does. Everyone here submerges his personal ambitions for the common achievement."
"Groupism is deeply rooted within Japanese Society."
"There is no 'you', there is only the 'we'."
"We live in a society; we're not atomized individuals."
"The argument is not liberalism versus conservatism, it is individualism versus collectivism."
"Don't take anything personal... you're part of the collective."
"You need mysticism to justify altruism, and you need altruism to justify collectivism."
"The individual is free by virtue of the very collectivity which makes him unfree."
"It's all about collectivism; it's all about community, and unfortunately, we've strayed so far away from that."
"For me, nothing; for us, everything."
"For the collective, take what resonates."
"You want uniformity, you want everybody to kind of fit as one, be part of a collective."
"You have to appreciate the idea of the collective."
"It is all about the collective good."
"We are very much a collectivist society; we are an Ummah, we are a family, we are a group, we are one body."
"We're gonna have to stop allowing other people outside of who we are collectively to identify us as something based on what a larger picture seems or sounds like."