Fran Lebowitz Quotes

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.

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

We had said, it was either all of us or none of us.