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Quotes About Community

Let those who like society better have it.
~ John Nelson Darby
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
~ Nicholas Meyer
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
~ Theodor Adorno
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.
~ Charles Clayton Morrison
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
~ Pope Francis
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
~ Marva Collins
Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
~ Nelson Mandela
Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.
~ Erin Pizzey
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
~ Orson Scott Card
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
~ Jules Renard
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.
~ Matthew Vaughn
Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.
~ Ruth Benedict
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
~ Elsa Triolet
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
~ Joseph Campbell
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
~ William Damon
Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
~ Tom Hollander
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
~ Francis Bacon
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
~ James Hillman