M. Scott Peck Quotes

The world is full of negativity and scary news, terrible things happening. And then we have Eurovision, which is like the whole of Europe and the whole world just comes together, and celebrates love and everybody supports everybody.

We want to gather everyone together as one, transcending any barrier of language and culture.

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

When you're dealing with a small community, every person counts.

I think football in general globally has a unique way of uniting people instead of dividing people.

When you don't have sport, it's like, oh, what do we fall back onto? And I think Nelson Mandela was the first person to really say that: sport unites people in a way that nothing else does. And if you take sport away, then I don't know really what we have.

In 'Palaces for the People,' Eric Klinenberg offers a new perspective on what people and places have to do with each other, by looking at the social side of our physical spaces.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

We in Europe need to discuss how we can improve the community. That is the correct order.

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

Don't wait for a disaster to get to know your neighbors.

If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.