Quotes about Community

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

We are here for the sake of others

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Of all the communities available to us there is not one that I would devote myself to, except for the society of true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.