Quotes About Community

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Society, you're a crazy breed.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.