Quotes About Community

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

It seems like we're not learning as a community, as a society.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

Muslims are the new mutants of today's society.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.