Quotes About Belonging

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

Isolation must precede true society.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.