Groups Quotes - Page 43

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus.

I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who overthrew the Czar. So they identified themselves intuitively with Bolshevism.

American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American.

So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful future of Syria to come together for national unity, for the political process. At the same time, it is a requirement for everybody to stop supporting the extremist groups, to stop allowing them safe passage, to stop allowing them to receive weapons, to stop allowing them to receive financial assistance, and to come together in actually fighting them.

What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.

The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.

I love nothing more than being in the last group on Sunday at the Masters. It's the greatest thing in professional golf.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

Your business should be defined, not in terms of the product or service you offer, but in terms of what customer need your product or service fulfills. While products come and go, basic needs and customer groups stay around, i.e., the need for communication, the need for transportation, etc. What market need do you supply?

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

A group called Draft Biden 2016 has started selling bumper stickers that say 'I'm ridin' with Biden.' It's a lot better than the other one that women around the White House have started using - 'I'm hidin' from Biden.'

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.