Community Quote by Aga Khan IV

We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . .…

— John Gardner

“Community, Identity, Stability”

— Aldous Huxley

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and…

— Amartya Sen

A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its…

— John Dewey

“But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust simply cannot…

— John W. Gardner

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and…

— Aldous Huxley

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local…

— Wendell Berry

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody…

— Erich Fromm

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the…

— Oscar Wilde

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority;…

— Bruce Schneier

A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

— Benjamin Hart

To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless,…

— Howard Adelman