Quotes About Community

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness

Religion is in a word the system of symbols by means of which society becomes conscious of itself.

Social man...is the masterpiece of existence.

There are few pleasures which loosen the tongue as much as that of sharing wine, glass in hand.

But even more aggravating to the Russian is the Jewish usurer, who since the Middle Ages has fastened himself like a leach upon producer and consumer, and who, if he does not borrow or lend, begs; and if he does not beg, carries on some suspicious business. A nation within a nation, the Jews are sometimes made the victims of popular hatred; the usually gentle Russians sometimes rise in sudden wrath, and the newspapers report to us dreadful accounts of an assault and murder of Hebrews. Russian

Today's Wisdom: Be it health or be it leisure, Be it skill we have to give, Still in spending it for others Christians only really live. Not in having or receiving, But in giving, there is bliss; He who has no other pleasure Ever may rejoice in this. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Come and share a pot of tea, my home is warm and my friendship's free.

When we lift someone else's load, we add color not only to our lives but to the lives of others as well.

Friendships happen through spending time together.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us—don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them

The Iliad thus begins to suggest that no community can succeed by honoring exceptional individuals whose indulgence in rage and ruthless pursuit of honor causes them to neglect or imperil those who depend upon them.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it is a comfort to go hand in hand.

Don't do for a group what a group can do for itself.

Do something a bit shit, like getting in a fight outside the TAB or getting a DUI, and people around here will bag the hell out of you. But something beyond the pale - beat your wife, hurt your kid, stalk a bloke because you think he murdered your sister - those things go unspoken.

May fiddled with her phone, reminding herself she was good at this and in control and that getting the story was more important than feminist principles – or no, not even that, it was that feminist principles demanded she tell the truth about this heinous act of violence against a woman and the blokey, misogynist community in which it happened, and if that required flirting with one or more of said blokey, misogynist community members then that was for the greater good.

People, in all but the most favored times and places, are rooted to the places where they were born, think the thoughts of those places, can endure no other thoughts. The next parish even is suspected.

We have voluntary show enough already in London; we do not wish to have it encouraged and intensified, but quieted and mitigated.

If, therefore, a nation is able to gain the benefit of custom without the evil—if after ages of waiting it can have order and choice together—at once the fatal clog is removed, and the ordinary springs of progress, as in a modern community we conceive them, begin their elastic action.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

A person or family can never bear the burden of whole nation's sins.

Nations are never destroyed due to casual accidents. They are destroyed when their congregation perception ends.