Quotes About Community

We are as connected to each other, as time is to the clock.

We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's experience as a reference too.

there is something beyond materialism that's called humanity and relation.

I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter

Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party...

Roman augurs and Chinese mandarins both knew well that when rumors about monstrous beings became more than usually common in a community, that might indicate rising stresses that could take a more overt political form later on. The same logic still applies today; the parts of America most caught up in the cattle mutilation panic of the mid-1970s, for example, were exactly those areas where radical anti-government activism took off most rapidly a decade later.

the more egalitarian a group claims to be, the more it depends on baboon politics to maintain group cohesion and direction

The kind of SUV environmentalism that waxes rhapsodic about all the things everybody else ought to do for the environment, while doing few or none of them, is not a viable response to the crisis of our time.

People of the Monolith and

Berlusconi is us," as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago puts it.

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

Tower'd cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.

As one who long in populous city pent.

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,In a light fantastic round.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Jimmy paused and then spoke softly; "I can do this… but I can't do it alone. I need every single one of you to be the hero right now." -Head On, Chapter 42

I can do this… but I can't do it alone. I need every single one of you to be the hero right now. -Jimmy Gallagher, Head On, Chapter 42

Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Nonprofit organizations exist to help people help others — through giving money, time, effort, or material goods.

The Best for the Group comes when everyone in the group does what's best for himself AND the group.

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

No matter how little money we have, no matter what rung we occupy on anybody's corporate ladder of success, in the end what everybody discovers is that what matters is other people. Human beings who give themselves to relational greatness—who have friends they laugh with, cry with, learn with, fight with, dance with, live and love and grow old and die with—these are the human beings who lead magnificent lives.

Kelvinist and Calvinist, schoolgirlishly light-hearted, she stood out in Manhattan like a Welsh miner at a bar mitzvah.

You have been conveyed into God's kingdom to help others get out. You have been released to release others. You are set free that you might go forth and set others free.