Ralph Adams Cram Quotes

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

It Takes A Village

Neither the crushing powers of the centralized State nor the teachings of mutual hatred ... could weed out the feeling of human solidarity, deeply lodged in men's understanding and heart, because it has been nurtured by all our preceding evolution.

We need a cohesive society that is tolerant.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

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.

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.