Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Comprise should not be a dirty word. It should be what we all strive to achieve jointly.

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

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.

No society ... can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise .... No good society can be unprincipled and no viable society can be principle-ridden.

That's what the United States is about: honorable compromise.

Don't spit in the soup. We've all got to eat.

Society is held together by trust.