Quotes About Community

I may have seemed like things quieted down a bit once we all figured out how to farm, because farming begets society and society develops laws, and laws enforce peace in the interest of the greater good. But society is just another kind of tribe and it eventually bumps into a larger one, and there's more violence, only then it's called war.

When God blesses us, He almost always does it through other people.

the Christian life is to be lived in vocation, in the seemingly ordinary walks of life that take up nearly all of the hours of our day. The Christian life is to be lived out in our family, our work, our community, and our church. Such things seem mundane, but this is because of our blindness. Actually, God is present in them—and in us—in a mighty, though hidden, way.

What is China but a people and their stories?

A crowd is not the sum of the individuals who compose it. Rather it is a species of animal, without language or real consciousness, born when they gather, dying when they depart.

If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone.

But love is the last need a group has, not the first. If it were the first, there could be no such groups. Justice is the first need, the mortar that binds together a village or a town, or even a city. Or the crew of a boat. No one would take part in any such thing if he did not believe that he would be treated fairly.

For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented for best costume, most beautiful costume, most humorous costume, most naked lady, and so on.

Iknow an old couple who live near Hell.

But the Lorns stood in the worst possible relationship: they were known by name only. They were reputed to be "nice.

They were functioning, Nicholas. They bought and sold; they worked, and paid their taxes—

Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them.

Well did he know the taverns in every town, and every hosteller and bar-maid, far better than he knew any leper or beggar.

I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.

So, what's the catch? What would we have to do to get these knives and shoes?' You explain, 'All you have to do is sit in classrooms every day for sixteen years to learn counterintuitive skills, and then work and commute fifty hours a week for forty years in tedious jobs for amoral corporations, far away from relatives and friends, without any decent child care, sense of community, political empowerment, or contact with nature.

A metrópole é a sede desta cultura, que eliminou todas as características da pessoa

Jacques is the kind of guy, if his house was burning in the night, most people in the Budayeen would write him a postcard and drop it in the mail to warn him.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It ia a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Mirovên geÅŸbîn û reÅŸbîn, her du jî ji bo civakê pêwîst in. GeÅŸbîn balafirê didahêne; reÅŸbîn sîwana rizgariyê.

I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.

without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible