Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.


An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Climate change is something that we cannot fix alone - it is the original collective action problem - it will not work unless almost all the large economies of the world act together.

The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group - otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.

As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.