Constructs Quote by Jamake Highwater

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

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics...…

— Emile Durkheim

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly…

— Anonymous

Communal well-being is central to human life.

— Cat Stevens

“To be communal is to be something fallacious. It is to be something more or less than being, a subjugation or propagation of the…

— Dew Platt

We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is…

— Elisabet Sahtouris

“But we don’t merely meet each other as unique individuals or in healthy social circumstances. We meet each other in the current atmosphere of…

— David Brooks

“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or saints. Others…

— Colin Wilson

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

— Anand Giridharadas

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends…

— Carl Rogers

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in…

— Atul Gawande

As an outsider, you observe what everyone is saying. Insiders are sometimes too insulated, listening to voices in their own little group.

— Nina Tassler