● 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.