"Alone, no one wins freedom."
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"I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through."
"The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual."
"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force."
"I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others."
"If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?"
"I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition."
"We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet."
"Guerrilla marketing aims its message at individuals or, if it must be a group, the smaller the group, the better."
"Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group."
"Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies."
"They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets."
"Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group."
"Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can."
"We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable."
"In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was."
"Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man."
"The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment."
"During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks."
"I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever."