Group Cohesion Quotes

… when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an Assembly can a perfect production be expected?

We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

All the brothers shall stand together all shall be responsible for the action of each one.

Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.

I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.

The more closed the circle, the more difficult it is for 'outsiders' to break in. Their very difficulty in entering may be taken as a sign of incompetence, a sign that the insiders were right to close their ranks.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

You cannot expect to be on intimate terms with everybody on your club, and there is no reason why you should be, so long as you are playing the game.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

A set should be like a family, except that you all actually like each other.

When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.

… men who are governed by self-interest will combine, whether white or black, and the generous and selfless will similarly unite

A nation is a historical group of men of recognizable cohesion, held together by a common enemy.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).