Quotes About Community

Salus populi suprema est lex [the good of the people is the chief law].

Nothing is more damaging to a state, nothing so contrary to justice and law, nothing less appropriate to a civilized community, than to force through a measure by violence where a country has a settled and established constitution.

Res publica res est populi A republic is the people's property

Non nobis solum nati sumus.

But since the resources of individuals are small, while the multitude of those who need them is unbounded

What is it about the sound of clapping hands? It's only skin against slapping skin, so why can it make a tide turn in you? Why can it break on top of you and lift you up at the same time? Maybe it's because it's one of the most noble things humans do with their hands. I mean, think about it. Humans make fists with their hands. They use them to fight, to steal things, to hurt each other. When people clap, it's one of the few times they stand together and applaud other people.

You'd be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. I was one person: I risked becoming no person.

Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?

This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It's as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. I was one person: I risked becoming no person.

You'd be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.

There has to be an "us" because now there is "them".

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.

I am a blank, here, between parentheses. Between other people.

Homelessness is a nationality now.

I never had a favourite letter that began my name - I for Iris - because I was everybody's letter.

Maybe they'll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don't fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that's what they'll do.

Bir yumruk onu meydana getiren parmaklar?n toplam?ndan fazla bir ?eydir.

Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women?

But the truth is that I don't know what the villagers thought or talked about, I was so shut off from them. The older ones occasionally crossed themselves when we passed, possibly because my mother was wearing slacks, but even that was never explained.

The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. When I was in the later months of pregnancy, they would smile at me, as if I was almost one of them. Now they smile at Sarah first.

Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selflessness.