Quotes About Community

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

The communal life of human beings had, therefore, a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.

We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between civilization and sexuality from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing, whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals.

One should not belittle the advantage that is enjoyed by a fairly small cultural circle, which is that it allows the aggressive drive an outlet in the form of hostility to outsiders. It is always possible to bind quite large numbers of people together in love, provided that others are left out as targets for aggression.

It has long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience.

en cuanto cierto número de seres vivos se reúne, trátese de un rebaño o de una multitud humana, los elementos individuales se colocan instintivamente bajo la autoridad de un jefe.

La consciencia de la culpabilidad y el sentimiento del deber serían las dos propiedades características del animal gregario.

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction.

Siempre se podrá vincular amorosamente entre sí a mayor número de hombres, con la condición de que sobren otros en quienes descargar los golpes.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?" —Simone Weil

George Balanchine said, If you put a group of men on the stage, you have a group of men, but if you put a group of women on the stage you have the whole world.

Say what you would about the pandemic, at least it had helped slow down the rat race. It had also got people thinking more about the world to come. In communities like Salvation City, life had become simpler and more purpose-driven. People were sticking closer to home, spending more time with their families. And everywhere church attendance had soared.

During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see.

Later many people would say that if the schools had been closed right away, lives might have been saved. But at the time people argued that you couldn't just close the schools, because so many parents worked. If they had to stay home to take care of their kids, a lot of them would lose income, maybe even their jobs. Not to mention that businesses were already shorthanded because of all the employees out sick. Closing the schools might just make things worse.

Kristin held the child while the young mother went to get a drink of local ale.

El honor de una mujer era el honor de todos los hombres que tenían el derecho y el deber de velar por ella.

Afterward they would go to the guild hall, which stood near Hofvin Hospice; there they would drink for five days.

she had learned that the world is like a tavern - where he who has naught more to spend from is cast out at the door.

Just as we are conceived and born from the lives of others, we must sustain our daily lives with what we receive from others. And we must pay for it by giving of ourselves every single day.

The internet needs as many good dogs and books as it can get right now.

They all knew that she was serious and they all knew what she wasn't saying—that their land was the most important thing they had besides one another.

believe in God, but I don't believe in church.