Quotes About Community

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.

Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

Anything and anyone can fail, he said, but brave good friends help.

Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed

You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.

Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders

You must cultivate ecological literacy among the people.

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self satisfied.

As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.

Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.

She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him.

În ceea ce îi priveÅŸte pe oameni, întrebarea este nu cîÅ£i pot supravieÅ£ui în cadrul sistemului, ci ce fel de existen?? va fi posibil? pentru cei ce vor supravieÅ£ui.

La influencia de la política en el seno de una religión ortodoxa es inevitable. La lucha por el poder impregna el adiestramiento, la educación y la disciplina de una comunidad ortodoxa. Debido a esa presión, los jefes de una comunidad así deben afrontar inevitablemente un claro dilema interior: sucumbir al más completo oportunismo como precio para mantener su poder o arriesgarse al autosacrificio en nombre de la ética ortodoxa.

Doesn't take much sense to know you shouldn't live in a place if you have to carry a gun.

Among us," he said

Ich habe eine ausgleichende Funktion wahrzunehmen, und muss gleichzeitig darauf achten, dass die individuelle Entwicklung des Einzelnen einen positiven Verlauf nimmt. Wenn ein Volk nicht aus individuellen Charakteren besteht, ist es kein Volk, sondern ein Mob.

Are we a troop together or a band of savages?

Ljudi najbolje žive kad svatko ima svoje mjesto, kad svatko zna kamo spada u shemi sustava i što može posti?i. Uništi to mjesto i uništio si osobu.

Never travel alone

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals

Below her, a Fremen work gang appeared. They climbed to the sietch's middle entrance, and she saw that they had muddy feet. Fremen with muddy feet!