Value System - Personal and Communal

Personal and Communal

One or more people can hold a value system. Likewise, a value system can apply to either one person or many.

  • A personal value system is held by and applied to one individual only.
  • A communal or cultural value system is held by and applied to a community/group/society. Some communal value systems are reflected in the form of legal codes or law.

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Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or communal:

    Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided.... No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty.
    Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)

    There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)