Groups Quotes

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.

It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating. I love meditating in groups, it's fantastic.

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

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

I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.

American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Christianity and the Holy Spirit is not just for a special group of people, it's for all of us. That's when I really began to seek God and his will for my life.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.