John Dewey Quotes

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

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

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

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

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

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.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

It is a community of purpose that constitutes society.

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 always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

I think that we're more united than the media would care to admit. We're not as divided as the perception would relay - not in the United States, not anywhere, really, in the world.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

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

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

The sense is always that community is natural to people.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.

I’m just one of the people who stands on the Kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they do. It’s a kind of marriage of people who like each other.

It's time for us to come together, time for us to come together around this good man [Donald Trump].