Ransom Riggs Quotes

People are longing for tribe and community.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

It's important to find your tribe.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

Community is like a big family.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

All political order presupposes a pre-political order, a sense that people belong together. And then, of course, they might seek a contract that embodies their togetherness. But the togetherness has to be there.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

I would love to be part of a community.

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.

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.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.

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

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Somehow economic growth and prosperity, political democracy and freedom are not enough—that we lack at some core level of meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively, that sense that our lives are part of some greater effort, that we are connected to one another, that community means that we have a place where we belong no matter who we are.