Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history."
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Smedley Butler
Military Officer, Author
"A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other."
Barbara Jordan
Politician, Lawyer
"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
Michel Foucault
Philosopher, Social Theorist
"Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society."
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"The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside."
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"The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened."
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"If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range."
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"If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses."
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"From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this... The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be."
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"Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging."
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"If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!"
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"I like comedy as a group sport."
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"Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end."
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"I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo."
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"Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group - in other words, mongrelized."
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"The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal."
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"Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'"
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"Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity."
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"Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you."
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"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty."
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"Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story."
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"Where did we come from? Where are we going? Is there possibility of a group discount?"
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"Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs."
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"you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares."
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