Konrad Lorenz Quotes

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

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.

Our nation must come together to unite.

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.

I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.

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

A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Without unity, the country will face disaster.

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

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

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

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

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

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

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

We had said, it was either all of us or none of us.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'