| "The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals." »Rensis Likert |
| "Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." »Fred Allen |
| "When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history." »Arthur Koestler |
| "The power trust is nothing more than a select group of dictators, with the same goals and objectives - but unlike the brutal dictators we study in history - this select group prefers to operate in the dark, behind banks, governments, politicians, companies, and so forth." »John Rocco Savalli |
| "Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening." »Barbara Tober |
| "Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story." »Lincoln Steffens |
| "What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." »Richard Harkness |
| "Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." »Sir Ralph Richardson |
| "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." »Margaret Mead |
| "The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert." »Vince Lombardi |
| "A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday." »Russell Wayne Baker |
| "I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution." »Dean Koontz |
| "Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps." »Tommy Boy |
| "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition." »Indira Nehru Gandhi |
| "I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights." »Clarence Thomas |
| "If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF." »John Dingell |
| "It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race." »Clarence Jordan |
| "Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." »Vince Lombardi |
| "It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better." »Marya Mannes |
| "One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight." »James Grover Thurber |
| "Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race" »Albert Einstein |
| "What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men." »Clive Staples Lewis |
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