Peter Abrahams Quotes

God designed humans to live in community.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

We are a people in search of community.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

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.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

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.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.