Historical Community

Famous quotes containing the words historical and/or community:

    “We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    “It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)