Quotes About Community

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

We rise by lifting others.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

The fetus is the property of the entire society.