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“With a comprehensive action plan, a coalition can engage peole, ideas, and resources across sectorsto create a synergy of health and prevention efforts that will have a lasting effect on community health.”
― Frances Dunn Butterfoss, Ignite!: Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change

“People can cooperate, compete peacefully, or use violence to achieve their objectives, depending on what they believe will serve them best in any given circumstance.”
― Azar Gat, Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

“Cooperation is dramatically more effective when cultural codes -above all language, but also customs, values and other patterns of thought and behavior- are shared. Culture, cultural diversity, and, hence, the facility of shared culture cooperation are unique to humans and differentiate them from other social animals. Hence the innate human tendency to prefer those who belong to their kin-culture community over strangers.”
― Azar Gat, Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

“Nepal's political system is forever shifting from one set of coalition politics to the next without creating a safe and secure political space for governance.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

“The first most important , critical and strategic coalition in an individual’s life is the coalition with ones own self.”
― Sameh Elsayed

“the planter class extended special privileges to poor whites in an effort to drive a wedge between them and black slaves”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“At the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, activists and others began to turn their attention to economic problems...The shift in focus served to align the goals of the Civil Rights Movement with key political goals of poor and working-class whites, who were also demanding economic reforms”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“A coalition, in a political term, defines as a conditional and non-significant journey that starts risking the collapse without notice; whereas, it also mirrors a hollow and unstable organ, to decide and solve wide-scale subjects and issues.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Later, we deepen our investigation into the drinking-while-standing phenomenon at Mashika, an Italian izakaya in a hip pocket of Nishi-ku. The Italian-Japanese coalition is hardly new territory in this pasta-loving country, but Mishika is a different kind of mash-up. To start with, the space isn't really a restaurant at all. During the day, grandma sells cigarettes out of the small space. When the sun goes down, grandson fires up the burners as a crowd of thirtysomething Osakans drink Spritz and fill up on charcuterie, sashimi, and funky hybrids like spaghetti sauced with grated daikon and crowned with a wedge of ocean-sweet saury tataki. The menu follows no particular rules at all. Nobody seems to notice.”
― Matt Goulding, Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

“Humans employ simplified conceptual frameworks and normative cues to make sense of and cope with the infinite complexity of the natural and social world. This is the magical devise that has made our species' amazing trajectory possible, and it relies on our unique capacity for social learning.”
― Azar Gat, Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

“Reason is still our signature tool for coping with a complex reality, yet it is easily subverted by overconfidence, cognitive closure, and biases.”
― Azar Gat, Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

“We never lose elections. We always make a coalition with the winner.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Proactive aggression involves lower physiological arousal on the part of the aggressor, yet is likely to result in more lethal outcomes. Lack of social communication, the targeting of vulnerable body parts, and the goal-directed psychology of this type of aggression render it more akin to predation than to reactive aggression. Indeed, the same neural circuits that are activated during predatory behavior are engaged during proactive aggression.”
― Candace Alcorta

“The expansion of the state thus had the effect of gradually diminishing tribal and local boundaries within the same ethnos, and of reducing the differences between separate -ethnies- in multi-ethnic states and empires, subsuming them within supra-ethnic identities, even to the point of creating new, transformed, and larger ethnic identities.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“Again, as young males have always been the most aggressive element in society whereas older men were traditionally associated with a counsel of moderation and compromise, it has been suggested that the decline in young men’s relative numbers may contribute to the pacificity of developed societies while explaining the greater belligerency of developing ones, particularly those of Islam.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“Thanks to language and culture, human behavior can be incomparably more intelligent, more original, creative and flexible than the behavior of animals, whose brains are too small to accommodate the number of neurons necessary for the invention of language and the transmission of accumulated knowledge. But, thanks again to language and culture, human beings often with a stupidity, a lack of realism, a total inappropriateness, of which animals are incapable.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“Thanks to the realistic ideas handed down by culture, mankind has survived and, in certain fields, progresses. But thanks to the pernicious nonsense drummed into every individual in the course of his acculturation, mankind, though surviving and progressing, has always been in trouble. History is the record, among other things, of the fantastic and generally fiendish tricks played upon itself by culture-maddened humanity. And the hideous game goes on.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“There must be a new coalition of all Americans - black, white, red, yellow and brown, rich and poor - who are no longer willing to allow their rights as human beings to be infringed upon by anyone else for any reason. We must join together to insist that this nation deliver on the promise it made nearly 200 years ago. That every man be allowed to be a man. I feel an incredible urgency that we must do it now. If time has not run out, it is surely, ominously short.”
― Shirley Chisholm, Unbought And Unbossed

“True equality, true acceptance and appreciation of each other,
true freedom,
may be the scariest thing.

Do we have the capability as a country to opt for it,
for enough of us to opt for it
to get it despite all the historical impediments?”
― Shellen Lubin