Best Groups Quotes

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

We must have…a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

What I need… is a strong drink and a peer group.

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich – and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people’s lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I’m the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.

Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I’ll find something and be like, I love this group! And I want to write something that’s kind of like this.

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

If a group of people has no sense where they came from-it is difficult for them to have a sense where they should go.

In Canada I’m not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there’s a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it’s the people of New Orleans.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group…devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area’s citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.

I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

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

And I can’t tell you how many women from a certain age group – they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s – tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We’d love to see this activity.

The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.