Groupthink Examples Quotes & Sayings

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. — Linda Lingle

We spent a century closed up within four walls
and a roof.
We are claustrophobic.
We prefer the sun and the wind and the sea
though it bites some of us
who are made of metal, and tears papery hearts. — Catherynne M Valente

To hear Him, to know Him, and to understand the wonder of His love - one must trust Him completely. — Beth Wiseman

How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding
if they kicked me out of the house. To find yourself out in the street with two dollars to your name, to catch the streetcar downtown and get a job, perhaps as an airline stewardess. Think how wonderful it would be to fly to Houston and back three times a week for the next twenty years. You think I'm kidding? I'm not. It would be wonderful. — Walker Percy

I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth. — Apollonius Of Tyana

I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right. — Paul Valery

They hurry in; the wind bangs a door behind them. Rafe takes his arm. He says, this silence of More's, it was never really silence, was it? It was loud with his treason; it was quibbling as far as quibbles would serve him, it was demurs and cavils, suave ambiguities. It was fear of plain words, or the assertion that plain words pervert themselves; More's dictionary, against our dictionary. You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, holds a concord. A shrivelled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.
Someone - probably not Cristophe - has put on his desk a shining silver pot of cornflowers. The dusky blueness at the base of the crinkled petals reminds him of this morning's light; a late dawn for July, a sullen sky. — Hilary Mantel

We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables. — Eric Martinot

How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision. — John Crowder

According to the laws of early twenty-first century cinema, anyone speaking Japanese is in a horror movie. If — Seth Grahame-Smith

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. — Douglas Adams