"Duty is not collective; it is personal."
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"Collective crimes incriminate no one."
"I do not believe in collective guilt."
"Collective madness is called sanity."
"Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy."
"Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity"
"I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate."
"Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken."
"Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life."
"It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious."
"Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you."
"I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe."