group dynamics quotes

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

It shows ‚us vs. them‘, and I’m on the ‚us‘ side.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.