Quotes about Community
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
- John Adams
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