The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.
'Collective' sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being.
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.
It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.
Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.
When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.
Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?
Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.
Life is lived in common, but not in community.
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.
I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.
