Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
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Indictment Against Entire Nations
Collective Guilt Is Groundless.
Guilt is individual as is salvation.
Collective guilt cannot enforced be
laid upon innocence preadolescent.
Vengeance reparations cause wars?
No indictment exists
nor means rationally
for law creating crime
as collective nations
shame blame guilt.
Penalty culpability
regret responsibility
admissions of evils
For the Indictment
of an entire nation.
Least free-born blood
of race righteousness.
Condemned in error.
Cry out from ground
in accusation against us.
Evil must be cleansed
to source malignant.
Before humanity can
collectively throw off. Weight
cavitation chains walk free.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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In the long run, a society's strength depends on the way that ordinary people voluntarily behave. Ordinary people matter because there are so many of them. Voluntary behavior matters because it is hard to supervise everyone all the time. … Successful societies — those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world— succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good. The behavior that helps each person will, as a cumulative ethos, help the society as a whole.
quote by James Fallows
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Our Apocalypse
Looking back through my life,even in the happiest times ,that I can remember,there were evil factors , watching, or waiting,for the balance to weigh ,in its favor,as it is in the way of the world,if ,all of humanity becomes corrupt ,with greed and hatefulness,for itself,if there is no more good left in humanity, when all is Evil,we shall see our apocalypse.
poem by Troy Michael Harmon from My mind (24 January 31), translated by Troy Harmon
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Our Apocalypse
Looking back through my life,even in the happiest times ,that I can remember,there were evil factors , watching, or waiting,for the balance to weigh ,in its favor,as it is in the way of the world,if ,all of humanity becomes corrupt ,with greed and hatefulness,for itself,if there is no more good left in humanity, when all is Evil,we shall see our apocalypse.
poem by Troy Michael Harmon from My mind (24 January 31), translated by Troy Harmon
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Shalom
yom kippur.
another year
Y'shua Bar Yosef*
goes ignored
by all but those
who have explored
the collective conscious
and like Daniel
been in the presence
of Michael,
military commander
extraordinaire.
christian and jew
share common stem:
roots are traced
back to Him
*greek alias 'Jesus Christ'
poem by Doug Bentley
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
quote by Soren Kierkegaard
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Evil,
Evil,
Evil is still lurking in me,
Thinking that evil is laced up,
Evil is all that I can perceive,
All thoughts in disguise,
Evil is a burden that keep's percolating,
But good hast to be done,
Evil is still in these eyes,
Taking in what man is planning,
Bombs and guns,
Profanity and lies,
Humanity,
Tell me villain is not bad or good,
Maybe it's the season,
Or where are we Heading?
When you play the Bursting and the Killing.
poem by Maxim Muyu
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
quote by Vladimir Lenin
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
quote by Mike Krzyzewski
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I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
quote by David Icke
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Called To Awake
We are all her to some extent to see, to face, to confront, to stop some of the stupidity, some of the evil and some of the ignorance of this world's collective deception. We are all called to awaken more than we go back to sleep.
poem by Michael Kavuoti
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
quote by H.L. Mencken
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The end of the World will be caused by individual indifference to collective failure !
quote by Octav Bibere
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
quote by William Faulkner
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Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
quote by Jon Bentley
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They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go.
quote by Roger Milla
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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
quote by Frederica Montseny
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It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.
quote by Roland Stahler
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