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Quotes About Community

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
~ Joseph Campbell
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
~ Albert Einstein
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.
~ Ani DiFranco
In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
~ Joseph Stalin
We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
~ Joseph Stalin
The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.
~ R. D. Laing
We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
~ Marianne Williamson
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
~ Publilius Syrus
The needs of a society determine its ethics.
~ Maya Angelou
The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.
~ Samael Aun Weor
I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.
~ Bill Reid
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
~ Serge Lang
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.
~ William Torrey Harris
Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.
~ Peter Thiel
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
~ C. S. Lewis
Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.
~ Winona LaDuke
Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society.
~ Pope Francis
Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is a secret society, a community for two.
~ Melvin Burgess
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
~ Dan O'Brien