Quotes About Community

Only if all members of society can satisfy the needs they share with all others – physical and emotional intimacy, economic independence, and political self-determination – by relying on the sympathy and support of their partners in interaction will our society have become social in the full sense of the term.

So the real task is to equip the 'generalized other' with a 'common good' that puts everyone in the same position to understand his or her value for the community without restricting the autonomous realization of his or her self. In this kind of society, subjects with equal rights could mutually recognize their individual particularity by contributing in their own ways to the reproduction of the community's identity.

Why didn't we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!

This move is called Qworegoys, and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.

the "kufar," or unbelievers. She had begun her journey to

both the immigrants from the tribe and bloodline and the activists of prosperity share a common delusion: they believe that it is possible to make this transition without paying the price of choosing between values. One side wants change in their circumstances without letting go of tradition; the other, overcome with guilt and pity, wants to help newcomers with the material change but cannot bring themselves to demand that they excise traditional, outdated values from their outlook.

Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.

there is indeed a great force in the world, a force spiritual and able to shape the physical universe, but that force is not something cut off, not something separate from ourselves. It is the energy in us, the strongest in our working, breathing, thinking together as one people; weakest when we are scattered, confused, broken into individual, unconnected fragments.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Joy with others is a sure antidote for depression. Anybody who suffers from depression is suffering from the lack of joy with others, the lack of sympathetic joy. One cannot always have joyful occasions, joyful thoughts in one's own life, but if one has joy with other people, one can surely find something to be happy about.

If the widows were widows twice or even thrice over, as was the case with many women, the problem of envy took on monstrous dimensions. To be a widow in the Islamic State was to be condemned to a rough, deprived existence in a guest house for widows.

As members of the same species, human beings broadly share notions and precepts of morality, of what is socially regarded as a proper conduct. But again, there is no reason to think that these notions and precepts should fully converge and cohere between different people and different communities, or even in the minds of the individuals themselves.

Cooperation is dramatically more effective when cultural codes -above all language, but also customs, values and other patterns of thought and behavior- are shared. Culture, cultural diversity, and, hence, the facility of shared culture cooperation are unique to humans and differentiate them from other social animals. Hence the innate human tendency to prefer those who belong to their kin-culture community over strangers.

Much like the flower and bee, we as humans are part of nature and, in the same way, hardwired to serve. Whether we give of our time, money knowledge or guidance, we have an innate ability and desire to support others with our resources.

Yahu, komünist Rusya'ya bile iÅŸçi gönderecekler ha? Paran?n komünisti, faÅŸisti, dini iman? olur mu arkadaÅŸ, para parad?r, gelsin de nerden gelirse gelsin. Ben komünistin paras?n? al?p cami yapt?rd?ktan, kuran kursu açt?ktan sonra bir günah? yok ki... Üstelik sevab? bile var.

Bir küçük yerden ç?kan btyük adam? oral?lar bitürlü adam yerine koymazlar. Köyden ç?km?? da doktor olmuÅŸsa hemÅŸerileri onun doktorluÄŸuna güvenmezler. Böyleleri için: Kap?n?n düvesi öküz olmaz.

Bir insan?n yaÅŸamakta olduÄŸunu salt kendisinin bilmesi yetmez, insan tek ba??na deÄŸil ki. Ä°nsan?n varolduÄŸunu baÅŸka insanlar?n da bilmesi gerekir. Ne denli insan bilirse o denli daha çok vard?r.

Evet, doÄŸru söylemiÅŸsin: "Türk milleti çal??kand?r!" Biz de senin tezindeyiz! Dinlenmekten yorulduk da, Onun için izindeyiz!

Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.

Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.