Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

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

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.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

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

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

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

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

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.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

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

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

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.

We believe that “we are all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you are on your own”.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

Here in America, we don't let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other's strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it's never been each person for themselves. No, we're all in this together. We always have been.

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.

I'd like people to be more aware of the benefits of communities. Lots of problems could be solved that way.