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Al Capone1 quote
What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man...a man stands alone at a plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Looks, throws, catches, hustles. Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field...what is he? You follow me? No one. — Al Capone · 1987Don DeLillo1 quote
The future belongs to crowds. — Don DeLillo · 1991Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882General George S. Patton1 quote
Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. — General George S. Patton · 1969Gunnery Sargent Hartman1 quote
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this, marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means you live forever. — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987H.G. Wells1 quote
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H.G. Wells · 1899Henry David Thoreau1 quote
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Jonathan Swift1 quote
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals...I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. — Jonathan Swift · 1725Marcus Aurelius1 quote
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Rabindranath Tagore1 quote
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore · 1916Sinclair Lewis1 quote
He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935