Rutger Bregman Quotes

MSG Sphere London will provide a home where like-minded communities can come together to not only interact with the performance, but also with each other.

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

To belong to the masses is the great longing of the 'alienated' intellectual.

The truth is, the reason why a party is fun is because you are enjoying the people you are with. It doest have much to do with the decor or what you wear... It's really just about being with each other and spending special time together.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

I remember in grade school having a group of friends and enjoying that sense of community, enjoying living in an imaginary world that wasn't just by yourself or your sibling but a whole group of people.

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.

People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.

What I learned early on, is that it's not really fun to do things alone.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

The journey never happens alone.

I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we all have. Even if you're not blood related, that doesn't mean I can't look out for you.