Alice Hoffman Quotes

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

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

I remember in grade school having a group of friends and enjoying that sense of community, enjoying living in an imaginary world that wasn't just by yourself or your sibling but a whole group of people.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

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

No experience exists unless it's a shared one.

We're all connected, related, part of one another's lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. For good and for bad.

Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.

If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.

Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads.

I was always with the people.

When I was on Taransay, I loved being part of a community, I loved that everyone knew what I was doing, where I was going. I loved that. I liked knowing that if I wasn't back at a certain time people would start worrying a little bit about me, I loved the whole community thing, sitting for hours and chatting to people.

No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

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.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

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.

The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren’t so germ-phobic with each other that we won’t share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.