Community Quotes

The family is the cornerstone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitudes, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled. So, unless we […]

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution.

Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

The Left talks mournfully about the atomization of society and its alienation, the end of community. It’s all the fault of capitalism and multinational corporations, they say. Nonsense. The problem is that the government destroys community. We have community-in-hiding all over the country, wherever people do not have large bureaucracies getting in the way of […]

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live, and that our own success, to be real, must contribute to the success of others.

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.