Writing Quote by Marcel Benabou

“Nothing unites a community so much as common cause against an external enemy, yet, in the same moment, that enemy becomes the essential support…

— Alan W. Watts

“As a social animal, we have a deeply rooted desire to belong to a social group—a preferred tribe, if you will.”

— David DiSalvo

“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly by all…

— Henry Miller

“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.”

— Amin Maalouf

“I think we are, by our own closed-door admissions, a fractious untrusting tribe unified only because we are besieged by larger forces.”

— Andrew X. Pham

“I was only one person among many. None of us made a difference individually, but together we all did.” It was the true meaning…

— Danielle Steel

“I do not believe that any form of lasting community can exist where people do not share the same sense of what is just…

— Coetzee

“The preposterous obstinacy of these honest people in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway rather than take advantage of modern improvements,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“Although the Word is common to all, many live as if they had a private understanding of their own”

— Heraclitus

“The simple message of It Takes a Village is as relevant as ever: We are all in this together.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away…

— Thomas Van Nortwick