Theres a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be good, to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. – Orson Scott Card

Let there be a small country with few people . . .
Though neighboring communities overlook one another and the crowing of cocks and barking of dogs can be heard,
Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another. – Lao-Tzu

In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem – J. A. Dever