Group Harmony Quotes

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

The relative absence from the national [Japanese] character of egotistical individualism has been the saving of an empire; has enabled a great people to preserve its independence against prodigious odds.

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly.

People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.

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

For traditional societies … the collective, the group, is more important than the individual, and empowering the individual is equated with dividing the society.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bees.

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.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.

I feel it's quite important to have a band but what's more vital is to be friends with the members of the band. If there's not a bond there, you won't be able to jam. Apart from that, it's also vital to have the same vibe.

No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

The first thing you’ve got to do in a community is listen, not talk.

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.

If everyone in the party has to agree on everything, that’s going to be a very small party.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

At the end of the day, dancing is something that brings people together.

2NE1 was special because we each had different characters and styles, for individual tastes.

What I've picked up from working with the women in the Gori choir is that they don't have egos. All that matters is the music.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Xscape never had a flop album as a group. The reason we broke up never had anything to do with sales.