Terence McKenna Quotes

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

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

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

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

In community people remain essentially united in spite of all separating factors, while in society they are essentially separated in spite of all uniting factors.

Humans bond to families but not necessarily to neighbors.

Every man cannot have his way in all things…Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society

All political order presupposes a pre-political order, a sense that people belong together. And then, of course, they might seek a contract that embodies their togetherness. But the togetherness has to be there.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

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

I fear that our loss of a sense of connection with, and duties to, each other leaves us unable to effectively address growing inequality and the bitter antagonism between different communities in American society. We've been at our best when we've felt in significant degree that our fates bound up with each other, where we've had a very inclusive sense of the other, and that's now very much not the case.

Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.

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

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.

I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.

You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it's not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it.

You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.