Community Quote by Michael Haneke

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends…

— John Dewey

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of…

— Charles Handy

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

— Nancy Spain

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

When I am talking about "It Takes a Village", I'm obviously not talking just about or even primarily about geographical villages any longer, but…

— Hillary Clinton

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity… Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for…

— Marshall McLuhan

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer…

— Rose Wilder Lane

“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find spouses. The…

— Patricia D. Netzley

Parallel societies are exactly that: They exist side by side and rarely meet.

— Andy Ngo

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the…

— Alvin Toffler

“all of human experience existed as much in this small village as it did in larger towns,”

— Cindy Brandner

“...Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities, and could…

— Patricia D. Netzley