Quotes About Community

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.