Quote: T.R. Reid

"In Japan today, Confucianism has nothing to do with religion, but rather is cultural and part of our basic education. For example, one of the famous sayings of Koshi is: "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." - T.R. Reid

Quote: Francis Fukuyama

"Americans are so used to celebrating their own individualism and diversity that they sometimes forget that there can be too much of a good thing. Both American democracy and American business have been successful because they partook of individualism and community simultaneously." - Francis Fukuyama

Quote: Wendell Berry

"A community identifies itself by an understood mutuality of interests. But it lives and acts by the common virtues of trust, goodwill, forbearance, self-restraint, compassion, and forgiveness." - Wendell Berry

Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He is only fit for this society who is magnanimous." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: Dag Hammarskjold

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. - Dag Hammarskjold

Quote: Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

Every time people can contribute successfully to the cause of serving the community, they become even more committed to it. - Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

Quote: Vaclav Havel

"Let us teach ourselves and others that politics should be an expression of a desire to contribute to the happiness of the community." - Vaclav Havel

Quote: Wendell Berry

"Community life is by definition a life of cooperation and responsibility." - Wendell Berry

Quote: Stephen L. Carter

"Civility is possible only if members of a community bind themselves to obey a set of rules of behavior not because the law requires it but because they understand the virtue of sacrificing their own desires -- their own freedom to choose -- for the good of the larger community of which they are a part."
-Stephen L. Carter

Quote: John W. Gardner

"In some measure, what we think of as a failure of leadership on the contemporary scene may be traceable to a breakdown in the sense of community."
-John W. Gardner

Quote: Alvin Toffler

"Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging."
-Alvin Toffler

Quote: Jane Jacobs

"The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson nobody learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility, take a modicum of public responsibility for you."
-Jane Jacobs

Quote: Lewis Mumford

"We must restore to the city the maternal, life-nurturing functions, the autonomous activities, the symbiotic associations that have long been neglected or suppressed. For the city should be an organ of love; and the best economy of cities is the care and culture of men."
-Lewis Mumford