Robert Nozick Quotes

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

Each wants to be free, but none can succeed in obtaining freedom unless all are permitted to enjoy it

A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.

The collective comes before the individual.

We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist.

I focus a lot more on the collective than the individual.

There are some sour people out there, but we should be getting together and fighting for something bigger rather than Asians against Asians.

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to program us. And, that's why they're pushing so hard to get more outrageous.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

Get people to sing together and they'll act together too.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

I am going to bring everybody together.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

Let's all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country. I see a vision. A glorious vision. A united people, marching forward shoulder to shoulder, giving their all for the common good, working while I whistle.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.