Quotes About Community

The provisions for the poor which structure both land ownership and the sacred calendar in ancient Israel, the rights of gleaners and of those widows, orphans, and strangers who pass through the fields, and the cycles of freedom from debt and restoration of alienated persons and property, all work against the emergence of the poor as a class, as people marked by deprivation and hopelessness.

I think fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification. -Imagination & Community

She'd thought the world was just hayfields and cornfields and and bean fields and apple orchards. The people who owned them and the people who didn't.

It is true for everyone that the experience that society gives to us, or denies us, is profoundly formative.

Tutta questa cittadina somiglia davvero alla speranza, quando ha cominciato a logorarsi un po', e poi si logora un altro po'. Ma una speranza rinviata resta sempre una speranza.

Gilead was the kind of town where dogs slept in the road for the sun and the warmth that lingered after the sun was gone, and the few cars that there were had to stop and honk until the dogs decided to get up and let them pass by. They'd go limping off to the side, lamed by the comfort they'd had to give up, and then they'd settle down again right where they were before. It really wasn't much of a town.

People don't talk much now about the Spanish influenza.... People came to church wearing masks, if they came at all. They'd sit as far from each other as they could. There was talk that Germans has caused it with some sort of secret weapon, and I think people wanted to believe that, because it saved them from reflecting on what other meaning it might have.

This whole town does look like whatever hope becomes after it begins to weary a little, then weary a little more. But hope deferred is still hope.

I feel as if I am being left out, as though I'm some straggler and people can't quite remember to stay back for me.

ce este arta? Eu simt ca atunci cand privim arta ca pe ceva izolat, ceva sfant, separat de restul vietii, ne indepartam de viata. Arta trebuie sa fie parte din viata. Arta trebuie sa apartina tuturor.

This was an important trip for me. Twelve artists in all were there, including several I admired—Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Chris Burden, Brice Marden, Joan Jonas, and Pat Steir—and

Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone

Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn't have to ask me to help.

At this point Frisella, the barber, came out of his shop to join in the fun. Behind him was the Maresciallo, pompous and important, rubbing his smooth red face. He was the only man in Montelepre who had himself shaved every day.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that.

En Cierto modo, tenía derecho; todos en el colegio respetaban la venganza.

Fue entonces cuando tuvo la idea de los espacios salvadores, la idea de que la civilización no era, no había sido nunca un movimiento, un estado de cosas general, un ambiente que abrazara al conjunto de la sociedad, sino diminutas ciudadelas levantadas a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio que resistían el asalto permanente de esa fuerza instintiva, violenta, obtusa, fea, destructora y bestial que dominaba el mundo y que ahora se había metido en su propio hogar.

La civilización nace con la necesidad del ser humano de recurrir a los otros para satisfacer sus necesidades

La masa, en el libro de Ortega, es un conjunto de individuos que se han desindividualizado, dejando de ser unidades humanas libres y pensantes, disueltas en una amalgama que piensa y actúa por ellos, más por reflejos condicionados —emociones, instintos, pasiones— que por razones.

Por esa razón es tan importante, para el liberalismo, ofrecer a todos los jóvenes un sistema educativo de alto nivel que asegure en cada generación un punto de partida común, que permita luego las legítimas diferencias de ingreso de acuerdo al talento, al esfuerzo y al servicio que cada ciudadano presta a la comunidad.

Everything turned on the word we, a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.

It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no .