James Howard Kunstler Quotes

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

No one person is an island.

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.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart

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

God designed humans to live in community.

No man is an island, especially not Jughead.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That's part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we'll do anything to help each other along the way.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society