Famous aphorisms about collectives

1. We know that individuals are weak, but we also know that the whole is strength. ——Marx

2. Only in the collective can individuals obtain the means to fully develop their talents. That is to say, only in the collective can there be personal freedom. ——Marx and Engels

3. The people are the soil, which contains the life juice necessary for the development of all things; and individuals are the flowers and fruits on this soil. —— Belinsky

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

5. A drop of water will never dry up until it is put into the ocean. A person can be most powerful only when he integrates himself with the collective cause. ——Lei Feng

6. 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

7. 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. ——Wen Yiduo

8. One flower cannot dress up the beautiful spring. One person always works alone, but only when many people advance can we move mountains and reclaim seas. ——Lei Feng

9. Live in order to do something for the whole. A drop of water has a moistening effect, but a drop of water must join the river and the sea to become a wave. ——Xie Juezai

10. People should be helpful. Although lotus flowers are good, they still need the support of green leaves. A fence needs three stakes, and a good man needs three gangs. ——Mao Zedong A swallow cannot make a spring. ——Krylov

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

12. I should not attribute all my works to my own wisdom, but also to the thousands of things and people outside myself that provide me with material. ——Goethe

13. Genius is not a monster that grows by itself in the deep forest wilderness. It is produced and nurtured by the people who can make genius grow. Therefore, without this kind of people, there would be no genius. ——Lu Xun

14. My views on many issues are very different from those of my predecessors, but I owe my knowledge to them and to those who first opened the way for this theory. ——Copernicus

15. Scientists do not rely on individual ideas, but integrate the wisdom of thousands of people. All people think about a problem, and each person does their part of the work, adding to the In the great building of knowledge being built. ——Rutherford

16. I am like a cow, eating grass and squeezing out milk and blood. ——Lu Xun

17. Falling red is not a heartless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect the flowers. ——Gong Zizhen

18. Freedom is the right to do everything permitted by the law. ——Montesquieu

19. When a person is trusted by the public, he should regard himself as the public property. ——Jefferson

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

21. Asking very little from others and giving much to others, this is the style of the pine tree. ——Tao Zhu

22. When people help me, I will never forget it; when I help others, I won’t forget it. ——Hua Luogeng

23. 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

24. We have enjoyed great benefits from other people’s inventions, and we should also be happy to have the opportunity to serve others with any of our inventions; Do it willingly and generously. ——Franklin

25. The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people. ——Meng Ke

26. Freedom cannot be bought by money, but it can be sold for money. ——Lu Xun

27. If an individual relies on himself, if he stays outside the collective relationship, and outside the scope of any great ideas that unite the people, he will become lazy, conservative, and conservative. A person who is hostile to the development of life. ——Gorky

28. People often call willfulness freedom, but willfulness is only irrational freedom. Humanity’s choices and self-determination are not based on the rationality of the will, but on accidental motives and this The dependence of motivation on the perceptual external world. ——Hegel

29. Don’t be overly obsessed with laissez-faire freedom. Freedom that is not restricted at all has many harms and dangers. ——Krylov

30. We must now completely maintain party discipline, otherwise everything will fall into the mire. ——Marx

31. The organization, discipline, perseverance of workers, and solidarity with workers all over the world are the guarantee for final victory. ——Lenin

32. Those who do not give freedom to others should not be free themselves, and they will not be able to maintain freedom for a long time under the rule of a just God. ——Lincoln

33. It is wrong to think that the freedom of an artist lies in doing whatever he wants. This is the freedom of miscreants. ——Stanislavsky

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

——Marx