Quotes About Community

Samfélagið hvílir á fjórum stöplum, hugsaði hann: fáfræði, leti, ranglæti og asnaskap.

Porque una de las grandes cualidades que tiene el fútbol es su capacidad de construir un mundo aparte dentro del mundo. Y mientras la pelota rueda los límites del universo son los laterales y la línea de fondo, y no hay otra frontera que las de las áreas y el mediocampo. Y la vida no tiene más extensión que la cancha. Y el género humano es la suma exacta de tus compañeros y tus adversarios. Y entonces puede cambiar la escala de las cosas.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero

All living things on earth are kindred.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power or means to coerce others.

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.

The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone -- and to no one.

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years.

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

Man is a gregarious creature, we are told, a social being. Does that mean he is also a herd animal?...Are men no better than sheep or cattle, that they must live always in view of one another in order to feel a sense of safety? I can't believe it!

It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America.

Wherever two human beings are alive, together, and happy, there is the center of the world.

We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred

Set not thy foot too often in thy neighbor's house, lest he grow weary of thee and hate thee.

Recall the Proverb: "Set not thy foot too often in thy neighbor's house, lest he grow weary of thee and hate thee.

We're not going to have any tyranny of the majority in this organization. We proceed on the principle of unanimity. What we do we do all together or not at all. This is a brotherhood we have here, not a legislative assembly.