Clearly, if Confederation is
Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on hating Toronto. Eric Nicol
Cohesion
The birth of the
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind — the mind of a fighter — in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man’s first beginning. Eric … Read more
Man seeks to learn,
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized. Emile Durkheim
Mythology is like gravity,
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. Elizabeth Janeway
Power is mass multiplied
Power is mass multiplied by cohesion. Edward Luttwak
You could make a
You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory – both how it works and what … Read more
David Shi (historian of
David Shi (historian of the simple life) describes the common denominator among the various approaches to simpler living as the understanding that the making of money and the accumulation of things should not smother the purity of the soul, the life of the mind, the cohesion of the family, or the good of the society. … Read more
We were all flying
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. Douglas Bader
What will be required
What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A … Read more
Similarly, dance is not
Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what creates integrity and integrality, a coherence and cohesion that the higher levels of our brain process. Daniel Levitin