Quotes About Community

Se tu hás de governar, soberano nesta terra, Melhor é com homens nela do que deserta regê-la. Uma urbe vazia é nada, tal como nada é navio Ermo de gente, sem tripulação nenhuma.

And whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing.

My city too, not yours alone!

Aren't you ashamed, with the land so sick, to stir up private quarrels?

And whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing: I have no use for him. Zeus my witness, Zeus who sees all things

Walls, towers, and ships, they all are nothing with no men to keep the wall.

and now a plague has struck the city.

Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

The genius differs from us men in being able to endure isolation, his rank as a genius is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we men are constantly in need of the others, the herd; we die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the herd, of the same opinion as the herd.

The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkably enough, even though he lives amongst a 'Christian people,' he incurs the same peril as he did when it was dangerous to openly confess Christ. And because of the follower's life, it will become evident who the admirers are, for the admirers will become agitated with him. Even these words will disturb many - but then they must likewise belong to the admirers.

all clannishness is divisive...For all clannishness is the enemy of universal humanity. But to will only one thing, genuinely to will the Good, as an individual, to will to hold fast to God, which things each person without exception is capable of doing, this is what unites.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

Paramore is a family. Once youre in it, youre in it for life.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.