Quotes About Community

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.