Abd al-Rahman al Bazzaz Quotes

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

The trouble is that we live in a culture where individuation and instant gratification are kings--and civic work requires selflessness and patience.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

He who would dare to undertake to establish a nation would have to feel himself capable of altering, so to speak, human nature, to transform each individual, who by his very nature is a unique and perfect whole, into a mere part of a greater whole, from which this individual would in a sense receive his life and his being.

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed, or quarreled in troops and companies.

For too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.

I think when you have a group of guys that care about the community, the city, care about each other, it just makes for a unique locker room.

I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.

As leaders, our job is to engage people so that they will want to participate in this grand experience in self governance.

Every person has the ability to influence change. I am grateful that my voice counts, and I am able to influence change. But more than that, there is a certain amount of activism that is engrained in me.

We engage in the public institutions of work and school and club and team, because it is there that we find meaning and purpose. But sometimes when we engage, we find confrontation not affirmation.

Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.

Americans are proud of this country. They want to see things get better, and they want to be part of that turnaround. That's what America Speaking Out is all about.

We have always a roll to play in any community, and we have to do it - it's being part of a society.

Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

It's very hard to complain about society if you don't get involved.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.