We live in a society where detachment is almost essential.

Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each…

— Jeremy Limn

But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second…

— Vikram Sarabhai

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…

— Herbert Marcuse

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

— Sharon Horgan

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

— Umair Haque

We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a…

— Edgar Mitchell

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

— Dave Gahan

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

— Dwight Schultz

Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being…

— Donna Freitas

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects…

— Amartya Sen

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or…

— Sheila Kamerman

I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

— Roger Ross Williams

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

— Charles A. Reich