Quotes About Community

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

There were two drama societies in Enniskillen when I was growing up, St. Michaels and the Enniskillen Amateur Dramatic Society, and I had the pleasure of working with them both.

If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability in industrial societies.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.

When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

Parallel societies are exactly that: They exist side by side and rarely meet.

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.