William Alexander Quotes

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

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

You either have a civil society or you don't.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

Americans want individual freedom and yet they want strong communities. There is some contradiction there.

Strong communities shape their own futures.

It Takes A Village

Since men are social by nature they are meant to live with others and to work for one another's welfare

Society is held together by trust.

It is the men who makes a city.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

All people owe their lives to surrounding society.

When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recognizing that he is a part of a larger body which is banded together for a common purpose, he becomes more than an individual, he rises to a new dignity of citizenship. Instead of finding himself restricted and confined by rendering obedience to public law, he finds himself protected and defended and in the exercise of increased and increasing rights.

The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.

People out here build whole worlds out of nothing, through cooperating.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Citizens are the energy of Seoul.

My kids are part of the rest of my community and my wider family.

Work is the way we contribute to society, part of a reciprocal social contract - the giving of our effort and our taking when in need - that holds our society together. We work, we build our society, and we share in its prosperity.