James E. Faust Quotes

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.

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.

He who would dare to undertake to establish a nation would have to feel himself capable of altering, so to speak, human nature, to transform each individual, who by his very nature is a unique and perfect whole, into a mere part of a greater whole, from which this individual would in a sense receive his life and his being.

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

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

Our children were trained to look after each other.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.

I feel we all have a stake in our community as much as we do in our own spirits, and seeking avenues of generosity is the direct path to peace among us.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.