Max Eastman Quotes

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection.

I was always with the people.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

It's better when they laugh, isn't it?

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

I'm trying to make connections. That's all we do as human beings on the planet, isn't it? We try to connect.

The energy that a crowd gives you is so amazing and so fun because when the crowd's having fun, it makes us even more excited, and it feels like we're all having fun together. It's like a big party.

We're all funny. Humor unites us.

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.