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Quotes About Community

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.
~ Bernie Sanders
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
~ Billy Graham
A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.
~ Pope Francis
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
~ Theodor Adorno
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
~ Baruch Spinoza
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Men build society and society builds men.
~ B. F. Skinner
You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.
~ Nhat Hanh
What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
~ Osamu Dazai
I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.
~ Steven Seagal
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
~ Henri Rousseau
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
~ Susan Orlean
There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
~ Cyril Connolly
Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.
~ Nelson Mandela
I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.
~ Seal
I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
~ Reggie Jackson
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.
~ Sargent Shriver
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
~ Pope John XXIII
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
~ Mark Skousen