Yehuda Berg Quotes

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

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.

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.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

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

The idea of service leads to community.

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

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other's strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it's never been each person for themselves. No, we're all in this together. We always have been.

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

Anarchy would be a world that nobody felt responsible for, that nobody felt any sort of love for. When there's real intelligence happening, when there's real love happening, there's a sense of responsibility: Hey, we've got to take care of this place and each other.

Community isn't something I ever take for granted.

I think, as a musician, or even as a citizen of the world, I just want to be a part of something or feel connected to something bigger than myself.

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.