Quotes About Community

Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do without anyone. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons. Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do without anyone.

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...

Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. But there were also husbands, wives, lovers. There were also monogamy and romance. "Though you probably don't know what those are," said Mustapha Mond. They shook their heads. Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopædic proverb.

A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms.

the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?

Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided. They came crowding in on her thick and fast. The spectacle of two young women giving the breast to their babies made her blush and turn away her face.

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.

Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what justification can there be for maintaining that the individual is less important than the group of which he is a member?

The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried.

Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.

You couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and that there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes.

Cuando el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente.

operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary";

From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

When the Individual feels, the community reels.

Organization is indispensable; for liberty arises and has meaning only within a self-regulating community of freely cooperating individuals. But, though indispensable, organization can also be fatal. Too much organization transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom. As usual, the only safe course is in the middle, between the extremes of laissez-faire at one end of the sacle and of total control at the other.

Ordinary men, we have seen, are not much interested in any political problems which do not immediately affect themselves.

Public health and social reform are the indispensable preconditions of any kind of general enlightenment

El cuerpo social persiste aunque sus células cambien.

Hombres y mujeres estandarizados, en grupos uniformes. Todo el personal de una fábrica podía ser el producto de un sólo óvulo bokanovskificado. - ¡Noventa y seis mellizos trabajando en noventa y seis máquinas idénticas! -La voz del director casi temblaba de entusiasmo-. Sabemos muy bien adónde vamos. Por primera vez en la historia. -Citó la divisa planetario-: Comunidad, Identidad, Estabilidad.

That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson.

At Malpais he had suffered because they had shut him out from the communal activities of the pueblo, in civilized London he was suffering because he could not escape from those communal activities, never be quietly alone.

Nicht Philosophen, sondern Laubsäger und Briefmarkensammler bilden das Rückgrat der Gesellschaft.

No cabe civilización alguna sin estabilidad social. Y no hay estabilidad social sin estabilidad individual.