Ariel Sharon Quotes

The feeling of community… is really what gives a sense, a purpose to a society.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Things that bind a community together are the things that nobody has to talk about because everyone agrees about them.

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

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

Society is held together by trust.

Every man cannot have his way in all things…Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society

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.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

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

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

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.

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 must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.

The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

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.

The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.