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We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

— Helen Fisher

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

— Marilyn Hacker

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

— Jan Karon

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

— Alan Ball

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

— Michael Harrington

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

— Jens Stoltenberg

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

— Ralph Nader

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

— Will Shields

✗Opposing Perspectives

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

— Valerie Solanas