● He who has the same desires from above and below wins.

Selected famous quotes about individuals and collectives

Sun Wu

● The right time is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people.

Meng Ke

● Unanimity is powerful, but disputes are easy to conquer.

Aesop

● I am like a cow. What I eat is grass and what I squeeze out is milk and blood.

Lu Xun

● Falling red is not a heartless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect the flowers.

Gong Zizhen

● The unity of the working class is the primary prerequisite for workers’ victory.

Marx

● Freedom cannot be bought by money, but it can be sold for money.

Lu Xun

● Freedom is the right to do everything permitted by law.

Montesquieu

● When others help me, I will never forget them; when I help others, I will never forget them.

Hua Luogeng

● The scabbard protects the sharpness of the knife, but it itself is content with its dullness.

Tagore

● Whoever breaks away from the collective will have a sad fate.

Ostrovsky

● If I can see far, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Newton

● Asks very little from others and gives much to others. This is the style of pine trees.

Tao Zhu

● We know that individuals are weak, but we also know that the whole is strength.

Marx

● When a person is trusted by the public, he should regard himself as the property of the public.

Jefferson

● We must now fully maintain party discipline, otherwise everything will sink into the mire.

Marx

● The cause of independence and the struggle of independence can give people the power to endure everything.

Ostrovsky

● Only when the collective and teachers first see the students' strengths can students be motivated.

Suhomlinsky

● No matter how talented a person is, the collective is often smarter and more powerful than him.

Ostrovsky

● The great power of people lies in feeling that they are in a friendly group.

Ostrovsky

● Even the best children can quickly turn into little beasts if they live in a poorly organized group.

Makarenko

● Discipline is the collective face, collective voice, collective movements, collective expressions, and collective beliefs.

Makarenko

● The power of public opinion in the children's collective is entirely a material and tangible educational power.

Makarenko

● Even the best children can quickly turn into a bunch of little beasts if they live in a poorly organized group.

Makarenko

● A pile of sand is loose, but when mixed with cement, stones, and water, it becomes tougher than granite.

Wang Jie

● If a person wants to help the weak, he should become a strong person himself, instead of becoming a weak person like them.

Romain Rolland

● I might as well play the role of a whetstone, which can make the steel knife sharp, although it can't cut anything by itself.

Horace

● Any act that is not intended for the collective good is suicidal and is harmful to society. Makarenko

● Whenever we have an influence on individuals, this influence must also be an influence on the collective. Makarenko

● The individual to society is equal to the cells of the body. For a person to be healthy, it goes without saying that every cell must be healthy.