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 […]
Community Quotes
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.
When you’re young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead. I will measure exactly the sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals.
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection… (and) where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.
