Charles Duhigg Quotes

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

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

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

Loneliness is not a problem in traditional societies. People spend their lives in or near the place where they were born, and they remain surrounded by relatives and childhood companions.

Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

People are longing for tribe and community.

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

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.

During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

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

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

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

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.