# Quotes about community

- Quotes: 84
- Authors: 62
- Broader topic: [Quotes about society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md)
- Narrower topics: [belonging](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/belonging.md), [solidarity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/solidarity.md)
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.json

## Quotes

> I did not act in this fashion deliberately; I did not prefer this kind of relationship with people. I wanted a life in which there was a constant oneness of feeling with others, in which the basic emotions of life were shared, in which common memory formed a common past, in which collective hope reflected a national future.

[Richard Wright](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright.md) · [Black Boy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright/black-boy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-wright/black-boy/i-did-not.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness...

[Boris Pasternak](https://www.leafyquotes.com/boris-pasternak.md) · [Doctor Zhivago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/boris-pasternak/doctor-zhivago.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/boris-pasternak/doctor-zhivago/and-so-it-turned.md)

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> The problem of evil is perhaps the most fundamental of all human problems.
>
> True community is always in a state of almost constant terror at the problem of human evil.

[M. Scott Peck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck.md) · [The Different Drum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck/the-different-drum.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck/the-different-drum/the-problem-of-evil.md)

Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Thing is, we’re humans. We’re tribal. More settled things are, the bigger your tribe is. All the people in your gang, or all the people in your country. All the ones on your planet. Then the churn comes, and the tribe gets small again.

[James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md) · [Nemesis Games](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/nemesis-games.md) · p. 317 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/nemesis-games/thing-is-were.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> I hate that it breaks down that way. Your side and mine. One of my teachers back in school always used to say that contagion was the one absolute proof of community. People could pretend there weren’t drug users and prostitutes and unvaccinated children all they wanted, but when the plague came through, all that mattered was who was actually breathing your air.

[James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md) · [Cibola Burn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/cibola-burn.md) · p. 277 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/cibola-burn/i-hate-that.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great. Together, all together, they are the instruments of change. (from the Prologue, p4)

[Keri Hulme](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keri-hulme.md) · [The Bone People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keri-hulme/the-bone-people.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keri-hulme/the-bone-people/they-were-nothing.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> I want every Autistic person to feel the massive relief and sense of community I found by recognizing myself and beginning to unmask...We must demand the treatment we deserve, and cease living to placate those who have overlooked us.

[Devon Price](https://www.leafyquotes.com/devon-price.md) · [Unmasking Autism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/devon-price/unmasking-autism.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/devon-price/unmasking-autism/i-want-every.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [otherness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/otherness.md)

> Everything we need is here, but for some years we had had little contact with other people as we struggled for our lives and our land. It was good now to know new people and to feel their strength. It was good to have new skills and new ideas, and to listen to all the new stories told by all the people who came. It was good to have others to tell our own stories to, and to have them there sharing our land and our lives. Good had followed what was not good, on the circle of our days. (Toko, chapter 21 p145)

[Patricia Grace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-grace.md) · [Potiki](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-grace/potiki.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-grace/potiki/everything-we-need.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stories.md)

> "People are strength too. Care for people and you are cared for, give strength to people and you are strong. It's land and people that are a person's self, and to give to the land and to give to the people is the best taonga of all. Giving is strength. We've always known it..." (The Stories, chapter 28 p176)

[Patricia Grace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-grace.md) · [Potiki](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-grace/potiki.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patricia-grace/potiki/people-are-strength.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [generosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/generosity.md)

> when all of them joined in to sing about lovers and fights and broken-down cars, it was a shared world, between all tribes, all nations. (p 296)

[Linda Hogan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan.md) · [Mean Spirit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit/when-all-of-them.md)

Topics: [music](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/music.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> After the second dinner, [he] blew out a candle. In the darkness, the stars and Milky Way lit up. No one noticed the electricity was turned off. The people all stood in front of the map of the universe, amazed by the lights on the wall. It was something, it really was, everyone thought. It was a fine, strong feeling, being there together with the stars lit up before them. Even if things were going wrong, the bad feelings disappeared in front of those stars. They wanted to touch each other that night and hold hands. (p 176)

[Linda Hogan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan.md) · [Mean Spirit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit/after-the-second.md)

Topics: [the universe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Being a citizen does mean sharing in the support of your community.

[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 168 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/being-a-citizen.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> There are some aches witch hazel can't assuage; for those, we need each other.

[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/there-are-some.md)

Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.

[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/the-trees-act.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> gift economies arise from the abundance of gifts from the Earth, which are owned by no one and therefore shared. Sharing engenders relationships of goodwill and bonds that ensure you will be invited to the feast when your neighbor is fortunate. Security is ensured by nurturing the bonds of reciprocity. You can store meat in your own pantry or in the belly of your brother. Both have the result of keeping hunger at bay but with very different consequences for the people and for the land which provided that sustenance.

[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [The Serviceberry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/the-serviceberry.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/the-serviceberry/gift-economies-arise.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [generosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/generosity.md)

> The fear of everybody was that the man might give in and say, "After all, it's her life." However a thing like that is not permitted in Nigeria; you are simply not allowed to commit suicide in peace, because everyone is responsible for the other person. Foreigners may call us a nation of busybodies, but to us, an individual's life belongs to the community and not just to him or her.

[Buchi Emecheta](https://www.leafyquotes.com/buchi-emecheta.md) · [The Joys of Motherhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/buchi-emecheta/the-joys-of-motherhood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/buchi-emecheta/the-joys-of-motherhood/the-fear-of-everybody.md)

Topics: [responsibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> "We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment." (Brave Orchid, p154, "At the Western Palace")

[Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [The Woman Warrior](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-woman-warrior.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/the-woman-warrior/were-all-under.md)

Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Community is not built once-and-for-all; people have to imagine, practice, and re-create it. (p306)

[Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [Tripmaster Monkey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/tripmaster-monkey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/tripmaster-monkey/community-is-not.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Within the bounds of the four seas, all men are brothers.

[Shī Nàiān](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shi-naian.md) · [The Water Margin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shi-naian/the-water-margin.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shi-naian/the-water-margin/within-the-bounds.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

[Arie de Geus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arie-de-geus.md) · [The Living Company](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arie-de-geus/the-living-company.md) · p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arie-de-geus/the-living-company/companies-die-because.md)

Topics: [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> the very idea that we, as atomized individuals, even lots of atomized individuals, could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet's climate system or changing the global economy is objectively nuts. We can only meet this tremendous challenge together, as part of a massive and organized global movement.

[Naomi Klein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein.md) · [On Fire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/on-fire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/on-fire/the-very-idea.md)

Topics: [ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Only in couples and in little circles of companions could they support true community, the communion of mutual insight and respect and love. But in their tribes and nations they conceived all too easily the sham community of the pack, baying in unison of fear and hate.

[Olaf Stapledon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon.md) · [Star Maker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker.md) · p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olaf-stapledon/star-maker/only-in-couples.md)

Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [crowd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crowd.md)

> Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

[Margaret J. Wheatley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley.md) · [Turning to One Another](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley/turning-to-one-another.md) · p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley/turning-to-one-another/relationships-are-all.md)

Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

[Margaret J. Wheatley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley.md) · [Turning to One Another](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley/turning-to-one-another.md) · p. 55 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley/turning-to-one-another/there-is-no-power.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.

[Andrew Solomon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon.md) · [Far From The Tree](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree.md) · p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree/difference-unites-us-while.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [otherness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/otherness.md)

> When the cold wind blows the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

[George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Feast for Crows](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/when-the-cold.md)

Topics: [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> The activity of rooting for baseball and other sports teams is one of the strongest expressions of community remaining in our society.

[Andrew Zimbalist](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist.md) · [Baseball And Billions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions.md) · p. 186 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions/the-activity-of-rooting.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [sport](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sport.md)

> The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world brother.

[Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Barnaby Rudge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/barnaby-rudge.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/barnaby-rudge/the-men-who.md)

Topics: [perseverance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> "A pack works together, Bran," he cried. "Don't ever forget that. If we don't have that, what by Tor and Fenris do we have?"

[David Clement-Davies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-clement-davies.md) · [The Sight](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-clement-davies/the-sight.md) · p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-clement-davies/the-sight/a-pack-works.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> “Damn you!" Dagenham raged, “Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.”
>
> “Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.”

[Alfred Bester](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-bester.md) · [The Stars My Destination](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-bester/the-stars-my-destination.md) · p. 254 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-bester/the-stars-my-destination/damn-you-dagenham.md)

Topics: [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

[Cormac McCarthy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy.md) · [Blood Meridian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian.md) · p. 319 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian/what-joins-men.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [enemies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/enemies.md)

> You can’t respect other people’s individuality if you focus on your own individuality in a kind of abstract, isolated way. The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That’s concrete individuality: an individuality that recognizes that it owes its existence to a kind of communal respect on the part of all the other individualities, and that it had better therefore respect them similarly.

[China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md) · [Perdido Street Station](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/perdido-street-station.md) · p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/perdido-street-station/you-cant-respect.md)

Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [respect](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect.md)

> To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to … for all we individuals to have … our choices.

[China Miéville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville.md) · [Perdido Street Station](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/perdido-street-station.md) · p. 692 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/china-mieville/perdido-street-station/to-take-the.md)

Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> The white man is very clever. He came quietly with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

[Chinua Achebe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe.md) · [Things Fall Apart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/things-fall-apart.md) · p. 162 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/things-fall-apart/the-white-man.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [colonialism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/colonialism.md)

> If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

[Chinua Achebe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe.md) · [No Longer at Ease](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease.md) · p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease/if-one-finger.md)

Topics: [responsibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Naturals felt best in groups of a hundred or so, and better if only a few dozen were involved. Hunting parties had been about that size, for the long-extinct big game. Many important institutions were of the same rough scale: the ancient village, governing councils of nations, commanding elites of vast armies, teams playing games, orchestras, family fests. All human enterprises that worked were of that size, and nearly everything that failed was not.

[Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md) · [Beyond Infinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity.md) · p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/naturals-felt-best.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> "It's a wonderful thing to be clever, and you should never think otherwise, and you should never stop being that way. But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost — swallowed up in the ocean — unless you are doing it along with like-minded people who will remember your contributions and carry them forward. That is why the world is divided into tribes."

[Neal Stephenson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson.md) · [The Diamond Age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/the-diamond-age.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/the-diamond-age/its-a-wonderful.md)

Topics: [intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intelligence.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> I told them that it was obvious our very existence depended upon our unity of action, that we were to all intent and purpose entering a new world as far from the seat and causes of our own world-war as if millions of miles of space and eons of time separated us from our past lives and habitations.
>
> “There is no reason why we should carry our racial and political hatreds into Caprona,” I insisted. “The Germans among us might kill all the English, or the English might kill the last German, without affecting in the slightest degree either the outcome of even the smallest skirmish upon the western front or the opinion of a single individual in any belligerent or neutral country. I therefore put the issue squarely to you all; shall we bury our animosities and work together with and for one another while we remain upon Caprona, or must we continue thus divided and but half armed, possibly until death has claimed the last of us?

[Edgar Rice Burroughs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs.md) · [The Land That Time Forgot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs/the-land-that-time-forgot.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs/the-land-that-time-forgot/i-told-them.md)

Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> I tell them that fraternity is a dream, an obscure and uncertain sentiment; that while it is unnatural for a man to hate one whom he does not know, it is equally unnatural to love him. You can build nothing on fraternity. Nor on liberty, either; it is too relative a thing in a society where all the elements subdivide each other by force.
>
> But equality is always the same. Liberty and fraternity are words while equality is a fact. Equality should be the great human formula — social equality, for while individuals have varying values, each must have an equal share in the social life; and that is only just, because the life of one human being is equal to the life of another. That formula is of prodigious importance. The principle of the equal rights of every living being and the sacred will of the majority is infallible and must be invincible; all progress will be brought about by it, all, with a force truly divine. It will bring first the smooth bed-rock of all progress — the settling of quarrels by that justice which is exactly the same thing as the general advantage.

[Henri Barbusse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-barbusse.md) · [Under Fire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-barbusse/under-fire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-barbusse/under-fire/i-tell-them.md)

Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [equality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's "winner take nothing" that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many— This is not prophecy, but description.

[Ralph Ellison](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ralph-ellison.md) · [Invisible Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ralph-ellison/invisible-man.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ralph-ellison/invisible-man/america-is-woven.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Generally speaking, when empowered as a community, or common mind, our common spirit, our common sense reaches conclusions that are beneficial for our community. Our common unity.

[Russell Brand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand.md) · [Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution/generally-speaking-when.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> "Only in us do the dead live. Water flows downhill through us. The sun cools in our bones. We are joined with all living in one singing web of energy. In us live the dead who made us. In us live the children unborn. Breathing each other’s air, drinking each other’s water, eating each other’s flesh, we grow like a tree from the earth." (p322)

[Marge Piercy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy.md) · [Woman on the Edge of Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time/only-in-us-do-the.md)

Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> I despise the weak. Why? Because the weak need not remain weak. Listen! Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was the division amongst them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb. They shall not tremble or run away before the sword.”

[Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo.md) · [A Grain of Wheat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat/i-despise-the.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [strength](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength.md)

> Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb.

[Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo.md) · [A Grain of Wheat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat/our-fathers-fought.md)

Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> In Kenya we want deaths which will change things, that is to say, we want true sacrifice. But first we have to be ready to carry the cross. I die for you, you die for me, we become a sacrifice for one another. So I can say that you, Karanja, are Christ. Everybody who takes the Oath of Unity to change things in Kenya is a Christ.

[Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo.md) · [A Grain of Wheat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat/in-kenya-we-want.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [sacrifice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice.md)

> But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong together.

[Bram Stoker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker.md) · [Dracula](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bram-stoker/dracula/but-we-are.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [strength](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength.md)

> It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

[Simone de Beauvoir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir.md) · [The Second Sex](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/the-second-sex.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/the-second-sex/it-is-for.md)

Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [equality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Religion now had to have its compartment, almost its social place.
>
> The frontier had ceased to exist. And the religions it had bred were beginning slowly to die. In the old days, when men, often of little education, had needed only to declare themselves ministers, people would have seen themselves reflected in the expounders of the Word. This quality of homespun would have made the religions appear creations of a community, personal and close and inviolable. Now a certain distance was needed.

[V. S. Naipaul](https://www.leafyquotes.com/v-s-naipaul.md) · [A Turn in the South](https://www.leafyquotes.com/v-s-naipaul/a-turn-in-the-south.md) · p. 244 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/v-s-naipaul/a-turn-in-the-south/religion-now-had.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> There is no phenomenon in the universe that does not intimately concern us, from a pebble resting at the bottom of the ocean, to the movement of a galaxy millions of light years away. Walt Whitman said, "I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars...." These words are not philosophy. They come from the depths of his soul. He also said, "I am large, I contain multitudes." This might be called a meditation on "interfacing endlessly interwoven." All phenomena are interdependent. When we think of a speck of dust, a flower, or a human being, our thinking cannot break loose from the idea of unity, of one, of calculation. We see a line drawn between one and many, one and not one. But if we truly realize the interdependent nature of the dust, the flower, and the human being, we see that unity cannot exist without diversity. Unity and diversity interpenetrate each other freely. Unity is diversity, and diversity is unity. This is the principle of interbeing.

[Thich Nhat Hanh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh.md) · [The Sun My Heart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/the-sun-my-heart.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/the-sun-my-heart/there-is-no-phenomenon.md)

Topics: [the universe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> It takes a village to make a mall. Community precedes commerce.

[Kevin Kelly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly.md) · [New Rules for the New Economy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/new-rules-for-the-new-economy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/new-rules-for-the-new-economy/it-takes-a-village.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [business](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/business.md)

> There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find a hive.

[Kevin Kelly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly.md) · [Out Of Control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/there-is-nothing.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [paradox](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradox.md)

> We have a saying, “Where one lives, all live; where one suffers, all suffer.” One, in our language, includes all living things. In your language someone has said, “No man is an island,” which encompasses the concept but which, by mentioning only mankind, misses the point.

[Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [The Fresco](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-fresco.md) · p. 157 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-fresco/we-have-a-saying.md)

Topics: [empathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> “Persons inside the group are ‘us.’ All significant entities outside the group, including females, are ‘them,’ and all of them are either property, prey, or opponents.”

[Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Six Moon Dance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance.md) · p. 100 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance/persons-inside-the.md)

Topics: [prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/prejudice.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> “The groups are stratified, with one or more leaders and the rest as followers. This pattern continues even today, though the acquisition of language allows such groups to be institutionalized as tribes, armies, political parties, commercial empires, religious hierarchies, or sports teams. All of these have rules requiring defense and extension of territory by carrying some play object—a ball, flag, icon, trademark, or belief system—into someone else’s territory. From the psychological point of view, there is very little difference between making religious converts, kicking the winning goal, or cornering the market on Thorbian gigarums.
>
> “Proper gang activity requires the control of members. Gangs cannot tolerate ‘loose’ persons wandering around. One is either with the church or against it; with the company or against it; with the team or against it.”

[Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Six Moon Dance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance.md) · p. 100 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance/the-groups-are.md)

Topics: [conformity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conformity.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [crowd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crowd.md)

> at exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every sense a collective predicament, humanity finds itself in the thrall of a dominant culture in which the idea of the collective has been exiled from politics, economics, and literature alike.

[Amitav Ghosh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amitav-ghosh.md) · [The Great Derangement: From bestselling author and winner of the 2018 Jnanpith Award](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amitav-ghosh/the-great-derangement-from-bestselling-author-and-winner-of-the-2018-jnanpith-award.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amitav-ghosh/the-great-derangement-from-bestselling-author-and-winner-of-the-2018-jnanpith-award/at-exactly-the.md)

Topics: [ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology.md), [culture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

[Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Lord Jim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim/the-real-significance.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md)

> Lilith might be strong enough now to handle troublemakers herself, but she did not want to do that unless she had to. It would not help the people become a community, and if they could not unite, nothing else they did would matter.

[Octavia E. Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler.md) · [Dawn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/dawn.md) · p. 126 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/dawn/lilith-might-be-strong.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> I believe creative work needs communication. So it’s extremely encouraging to be with a group of people who form a community and to know that you’re not isolated, although as individuals we must always work in an inner silence.

[Henri Cartier-Bresson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-cartier-bresson.md) · [Henri Cartier-Bresson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-cartier-bresson/henri-cartier-bresson.md) · p. 34 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-cartier-bresson/henri-cartier-bresson/i-believe-creative.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [creativity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/creativity.md)

> Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

[Paramahansa Yogananda](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paramahansa-yogananda.md) · [Autobiography of A Yogi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paramahansa-yogananda/autobiography-of-a-yogi.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paramahansa-yogananda/autobiography-of-a-yogi/brotherhood-is-an-ideal.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

[Starhawk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk.md) · [Dreaming the Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/dreaming-the-dark.md) · p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/starhawk/dreaming-the-dark/we-are-all.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> A diverse community is a resilient community, capable of adapting to changing situations.

[Fritjof Capra](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra.md) · [The Web of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra/the-web-of-life.md) · p. 303 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra/the-web-of-life/a-diverse-community.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [diversity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/diversity.md)

> Understanding ecological interdependence means understanding relationships. It requires the shifts of perception that are characteristic of systems thinking—from the parts to the whole, from objects to relationships, from contents to patterns. ...Nourishing the community means nourishing those relationships.

[Fritjof Capra](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra.md) · [The Web of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra/the-web-of-life.md) · p. 298 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra/the-web-of-life/understanding-ecological-interdependence.md)

Topics: [ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> The principle of flexibility... suggests a corresponding strategy of conflict resolution. ...the community will need stability and change, order and freedom, tradition and innovation. ...these unavoidable conflicts are much better resolved by establishing a dynamic balance.

[Fritjof Capra](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra.md) · [The Web of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra/the-web-of-life.md) · p. 303 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra/the-web-of-life/the-principle-of-flexibility.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> As one grows older, one lives more and more off the little signs of whatever community one moves through day to day and less and less off the gifts that fall out of individual relationships. If one does not prepare for this change in youth, than age becomes a bitter time. This is not to disparage the beauty of one’s relationships with lover or friend. It is only to acknowledge what, for so many in the city, is a sad truth. Community can, however awkwardly, replace individual relationships. But individual relationships only grow poisonous and resentful if there is no community to support them.

[Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md) · [Neveryona](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona.md) · p. 147 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/as-one-grows.md)

Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.

[Valerie Solanas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas.md) · [SCUM Manifesto](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto.md) · p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto/a-true-community.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [individualism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/individualism.md), [feminism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/feminism.md)

> They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

[Robert Penn Warren](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-penn-warren.md) · [All the King's Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-penn-warren/all-the-kings-men.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-penn-warren/all-the-kings-men/they-say-you.md)

Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Marriage is not a covenant between a man and a woman; even the beasts cleave together and produce their young. Marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman on one side and their community on the other.

[Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md) · [Speaker for the Dead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/speaker-for-the-dead.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/speaker-for-the-dead/marriage-is-not.md)

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe.

[Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md) · [Speaker for the Dead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/speaker-for-the-dead.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/speaker-for-the-dead/we-become-one.md)

Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all — the whole world — had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
>
> And it is still true, no matter how old you are — when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Robert Fulghum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum.md) · [All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten/take-any-one.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [advice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advice.md)

> There’s another thing not everyone figures out right away: It’s almost impossible to go through life all alone. We need to find our support group — family, friends, companion, therapy gatherings, team, church or whatever. The kindergarten admonition applies as long as we live: “When you go out into the world, hold hands and stick together.” It’s dangerous out there — lonely, too. Everyone needs someone. Some assembly is always required.

[Robert Fulghum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum.md) · [All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten/theres-another-thing.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> From the first day we are told in words we can handle what has come to be prized as the foundation of community and culture. Though the teacher may call these first lessons “simple rules,” they are in fact the distillation of all the hard-won, field-tested working standards of the human enterprise.

[Robert Fulghum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum.md) · [All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten/from-the-first.md)

Topics: [education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. … The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. … A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.

[Aldo Leopold](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldo-leopold.md) · [A Sand County Almanac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldo-leopold/a-sand-county-almanac.md) · p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldo-leopold/a-sand-county-almanac/all-ethics-so-far.md)

Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md) · [Tales from Earthsea](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea.md) · p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea/theres-people-all.md)

Topics: [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> We can already catch glimpses of a world in which the bonds which bind the individual are no longer laws, but social habits--the result of the need felt by each one of us to seek the support, the co-operation, the sympathy of his neighbours.
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> Assuredly the idea of a society without a State will give rise to at least as many objections as the political economy of a society without private capital. We have all been brought up from our childhood to regard the State as a sort of Providence; all our education, the Roman history we learned at school, the Byzantine code which we studied later under the name of Roman law, and the various sciences taught at the universities, accustom us to believe in Government and in the virtues of the State providential.
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> To maintain this superstition whole systems of philosophy have been elaborated and taught; all politics are based on this principle; and each politician, whatever his colours, comes forward and says to the people, "Give me the power, and I both can and will free you from the miseries which press so heavily upon you."

[Peter Kropotkin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-kropotkin.md) · [The Conquest of Bread](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-kropotkin/the-conquest-of-bread.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-kropotkin/the-conquest-of-bread/we-can-already.md)

Topics: [law](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

[Wendell Berry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry.md) · [The Long-Legged House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/the-long-legged-house.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/the-long-legged-house/a-community-is-the.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Palm Sunday](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/palm-sunday.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/palm-sunday/what-should-young.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> What we will be seeking … for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Palm Sunday](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/palm-sunday.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/palm-sunday/what-we-will.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> [Hazel Crosby's] obsession with Hoosiers around the world was a textbook example of a false karass, of a seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done, a textbook example of what Bokonon calls a granfalloon. Other examples are the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows - and any nation, anytime, anywhere.As Bokonon invites us to sing along with him:If you wish to study a granfalloon
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> Just remove the skin of a toy balloon.

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Cat's Cradle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/hazel-crosbys-obsession.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;
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> And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back;
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> For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

[Rudyard Kipling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling.md) · [The Second Jungle Book](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/the-second-jungle-book.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/the-second-jungle-book/now-this-is-the.md)

Topics: [law](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> It is truly a marvelous thing to consider to what greatness Athens arrived in the space of one hundred years after she freed herself from the tyranny of Pisistratus; but, above all, it is even more marvelous to consider the greatness Rome reached when she freed herself from her kings. The reason is easy to understand, for it is the common good and not private gain that makes cities great. Yet, without a doubt, this common good is observed only in republics, for in them everything that promotes it is practised, and however much damage it does to this or that private individual, those who benefit from the said common good are so numerous that they are able to advance in spite of the inclination of the few citizens who are oppressed by it.

[Niccolo Machiavelli](https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli.md) · [Discourses on Livy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli/discourses-on-livy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli/discourses-on-livy/it-is-truly.md)

Topics: [democracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Everything in me that conspires to break the unity and continuity of my life conspires to destroy me and consequently to destroy itself. Every individual in a people who conspires to break the spiritual unity and continuity of that people tends to destroy it and to destroy himself as a part of that people.

[Miguel de Unamuno](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno.md) · [Tragic Sense of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/everything-in-me-that.md)

Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.

[Carl Jung](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung.md) · [The Undiscovered Self](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/the-undiscovered-self.md) · p. 23 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/the-undiscovered-self/just-as-man.md)

Topics: [meaning of life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [spirituality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/spirituality.md)

> It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here.

[George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/it-was-curious-to.md)

Topics: [equality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality.md), [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md)

> Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

[Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/every-rebellion-implies.md)

Topics: [community](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/community.md), [rebellion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/rebellion.md)