“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
“The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.”
“If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..."469”
“Without community, there is no liberation.”
“Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...”
“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”