Quotes About Community

He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

The tendency of modern political thought is to increase the control of government, and to regard all departments of activity as branches of the state, to be held and worked for the general good of the community. Thus there is a danger that the individual may gradually lose all initiative, and life be impoverished under a coercive mechanical system.

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [ The Premise Of Meaning , American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

Assuming that all things are equal, Who'd want to be men of the people, When there's people like you?

Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.

Los emprendedores sociales son los clásicos altruistas. Construyen su trabajo sobre la base de dar un valor a la vida de las personas. Bill

Imagine how our culture, how our lives, will change when we begin valuing go-givers as much as we value go-getters.

That's all it takes, one person crying out in the ethical wilderness, one person and then one more and then another, that's all that's needed to keep the spark of justice alive

Ensomhet, sier du. Det er greit med litt ensomhet bare det ikke blir for mye. Da åpner jeg døren og roper ut i natten: kom inn kom inn – her er ensomhet nok for to! ja for fire! Og på riktig ille dager brøler jeg: her er ensomhet nok for et helt orkester!

People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that would not happen if there were the walls of ignorant prejudice between us. --Oisce

Most hearth-based house witches gravitate to the path because they feel the need to care for and nurture those who are close to them.

On the one hand, I don't know a single person who says, "Yay! Purim is my favorite holiday!" On the other hand, if there's any holiday concept more Jewish than "Here's the awful story of what happened to your great-great-grandmother. Have a cookie." I don't know what it is.

May I take refuge in my capacity to awaken. May I take refuge in the ways of living that bring about my freedom and happiness. May I feel open to all those who can support me on this path of freedom.

Wirklichkeit besteht aus miteinander geteilten Geschichten.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world

Evils draw men together.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

Every commonwealth being, as we have said, a partnership, it follows, that in every commonwealth men must be partners in some things or in all. Some things they must possess in common, since the community could not otherwise subsist.