Richard Dormer Quotes

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

We have stopped making communities in which people want to live and are making communities where people drive through.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm

There is no such thing as society…There are individuals, men and women, and there are families.

… the woman whose husband makes twelve hundred dollars a year may have a couple of hours a day which she could sell in return for some service which she wishes to buy. There ought to be a reciprocity exchange in every town of any size where these exchanges could be arranged for. Nothing more than an extension of the old community way of living when everybody got together for barn raisings, and husking bees and each individual's special talent was called upon and everyone earned in one way or another what they got.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.

People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people.

God designed humans to live in community.

People crave community, more efficient living, and easier access to the places they want to go.

I fear that our loss of a sense of connection with, and duties to, each other leaves us unable to effectively address growing inequality and the bitter antagonism between different communities in American society. We've been at our best when we've felt in significant degree that our fates bound up with each other, where we've had a very inclusive sense of the other, and that's now very much not the case.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.