Quotes about Community
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library
— Carl Sagan
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
— Joseph Campbell
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
— CS Lewis
If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.
— Nelson Mandela
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
— Ben Carson
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
— Phillips Brooks
The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.
— Ronald Reagan
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
— George Washington
Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
— Philip Yancey