Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.
Society is unity in diversity.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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