Quotes About Community

It's like there are two worlds in Drama Club. The world onstage and the world backstage. It reminds me of how I feel all the time.

The world became smaller, yet louder.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.' Joe Ancis

But, goodness me, poor Theresa! What a dreadful thing to happen in Smithy's Loam!' 'Or anywhere,' Mrs Pargeter observed mildly.

It's one of those important things you learn in your life, which is, your ego can start believing it is only you... and you don't recognize the people around you.

Selfing is a very necessary precursor to unselfing. So now that you have successfully selfed and unselfed, what's next? "Collective effervescence!

He nodded. 'We can circumcise a hundred boys an hour.

Often they can help to entrench poverty by encouraging people in remote communities empty of employment to do little but drink, fester and wait for the next handout from their relative abroad.

By creating a park, and then providing jobs and salaries to local communities, we give economic incentives to people to protect what all of us surely want to preserve.

The Brotherhood was effectively a religious community, and one of the idols they worshiped was Number.

Un judío sigue siendo judío, con o sin piernas

the creation of any sense of unity among a population of potentially disharmonious settlers almost always requires the deliberate agency of man.

I cannot withdraw into myself. I exist, outside myself and everywhere in the world. There is not an inch of my path which does not encroach on the path of another: there is no way of being that can prevent me from overflowing myself at every moment. This life that I weave with my own substance, it offers other men a thousand unknown faces, it crosses impetuously their fate.

On ne peut pas mener une vie correcte dans une société qui ne l'est pas?

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

One is not the neighbor of anyone; one makes the other a neighbor by making oneself his neighbor through an act

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In 1949 Beauvoir could see that women would be able to shed their old skins and cut their own clothes, only 'if there is a collective change' (see here).

Society is the cave. The way out is solitude.

The wish to see others suffer exactly what we are suffering. It is because of this that, except in periods of social instability, the spite of those in misfortune is directed against their fellows. That is a factor making for social stability.

Human beings have roots by virtue of their real, active, and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves in living shape particular treasures of the past and particular expectations for the future.

Il faut éliminer le malheur autant qu'on le peut de la vie sociale, car le malheur ne sert qu'à la grâce et la société n'est pas une société d'élus. Il y aura toujours assez de malheur pour les élus.

Christ toujours présent entre deux vrais amis. Réciproquement la parole « Si deux ou trois.... » est la promesse de l'amitié humaine à ses amis.

Those who are lacking in goodwill or who remain adolescent are never free under any form of society.