The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you…

If I cooperate with you, and you cooperate with me, I will keep cooperating with you.

— William G. Kline

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties…

— Pauli Murray

The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent…

— Carroll Quigley

We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day…

— Peter Corning

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

— D. A. Carson

If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set…

— Francis Fukuyama

“The sperm whales' network of female-based family unit resembled, to a remarkable extent, the community the whalemen had left back home on Nantucket. In…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic…

— Aaron Siskind

The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace a survival…

— Henry Giroux

“...class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.”

— Neal Stephenson

A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus…

— Stanley Greenspan

“One third of managers are victims of "Information Fatigue Syndrome." 49 percent said they are unable to handle the vast amounts of information received.…

— Jeff Davidson

“The reigning belief today is that closeness between persons is a moral good. The reigning aspiration today is to develop individual personality through experiences…

— Richard Sennett

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or…

— Sigmund Freud

We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

— Margaret Visser