Community Dynamics Quotes

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.

It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.

We do have to watch to see how the foreign workers and immigrants are fitting in with our community, and you have to watch them mix so that you don't overbalance the numbers or the tone of our society.

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.

I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.