Ian McLagan Quotes

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

I think the idea that the community you live in is an extension of your family is a really nice thing for people to think about and to wish for in their own lives.

I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?

There are a few places around the country, north shore of Oahu would be one that I would point to, where people really look out for each other; it's a real local sort of a place and once you're in that sort of ohana, or that family, everybody kind of looks out for each other.

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Loneliness is not a problem in traditional societies. People spend their lives in or near the place where they were born, and they remain surrounded by relatives and childhood companions.

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.

People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.

I'm big on my community and want to stay that way.

We're not just designed just to work all day and run a rat race. We're designed to be in community, to volunteer, to vote, to raise our kids. And I think the more inputs and investments we can give in people to do those things, the better off we are as a community.

I'm really proud to be from Bolton. Population-wise it's the biggest town in Europe but you feel you live in a village - you'll always find yourself beside someone you went to school with.

I have always known that New Hampshire is a special place, with a community of people who come together to solve our common challenges.