Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.Steven Pinker
One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.Steven Pinker
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.Steven Pinker
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.Karl Marx
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.Henry David Thoreau
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.Nelson Mandela
Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.Barack Obama
