Starhawk Quotes

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.

For traditional societies … the collective, the group, is more important than the individual, and empowering the individual is equated with dividing the society.

A nation is a historical group of men of recognizable cohesion, held together by a common enemy.

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

A lot of people may not read the history of their own country, but they carry on memories transmitted by previous generations. They're trying to achieve something, [they] have their mission and anger -- all this is fed by past experience of history.

It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.

Hindu civilization is a common history, common heroes, a common literature, common art, a common law and a common jurisprudence, common fairs and festivals, rites and rituals, ceremonies and sacraments..

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

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.

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

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

One of the things that we're missing from our political dialogue right now is the idea that the United States is a home. It is more than an accounting sheet. It is more than the sum of its G.D.P., its total tax collections, or its total outlays. America is a family.

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

I got a big Filipino family. That's what I love about being Pinoy: we all gotta surround ourselves with family; we all gotta laugh and do things together. I love it! It's family first.

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

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