Quotes About Community

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence.

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each individual relationship within that group coming together is such a special thing.

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

The subway in New York is a great social experiment there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

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

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

Humor is a universal language.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.