Quotes About Community

Man does not attain the one-winged birds of our childhood's tale, they must rise together.

Það er alltaf einhver sem þarf á hjálp að halda. Það er alltaf einhver úti í kuldanum, einhver að leita að hendi í snjónum.

Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world.

It was nice to have him back. It made me realize that he was probably the only genuinely nice person in the whole group. Amongst us all he stands out like a good deed in a bad world, as they say.

The ideal personality is embodied, in Mead's words, in "every thread of the social fabric–in the care of the young child, the games the children play, the songs the people sing, the political organization, the religious observance, the art and the philosophy." Other traits are ignored, discouraged, or if all else fails, ridiculed. What is the ideal in our culture?

anthropologists speak of ritual leadership and ritual space.

Some of the most important containers are the precious people in your life: spouse, parent, child, brother or sister, grandparent, close friend, spiritual guide, or therapist.

Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?" "Capitalists," said Anna.

I am sure none of my boys and girls in Room 13 would purposely and deliberately hurt anyone's feelings because his name happened to be a long, unfamiliar one. I prefer to think that what was said was said in thoughtlessness. I know that all of you feel the way I do, that this is a very unfortunate thing to have happen. Unfortunate and sad, both. And I want you all to think about it.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.

Alex looks around at Heph, at Diodotus, at handsome Telekles and round-faced Phrixos

conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democrac.

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.