Quotes About Community

In principle a Party member had no spare time, and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreations; to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity.

There is nothing like an earthquake for drawing people together. One more tremor, or perhaps two, and they would have asked the butler to sit down at table with them.

The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition—in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all—and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery.

but any writer who adopts the totalitarian outlook, who finds excuses for persecution and the falsification of reality, thereby destroys himself as a writer. There is no way out of this. No tirades against 'individualism' and 'the ivory tower', no pious platitudes to the effect that 'true individuality is only attained through identification with the community', can get over the fact that a bought mind is a spoiled mind

What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists.

Many of the people who came to us were of the kind who would be a nuisance anywhere but have special opportunities in a bookshop

Always yell with the crowd, that's what I say. It's the only way to be safe.

Vi?š bija aizmirsis, ka vairums ?aužu sveš? zem? j?tas labi tikai tad, ja var noniecin?t t?s iedz?vot?jus.

The first thing you must realize is that power is collective.

Bir domuz ile baÅŸka bir hayvan yolda kar??laÅŸt?klar?nda öteki hayvan kenara çekilerek domuza yol verecek ve bütün domuzlar Pazar günleri kuyruklar?na yeÅŸil kurdele takma ayr?laca??na sahip olacaklard?.

I thought it idiotic that people fighting for their lives should have separate parties

Orang mengorbankan diri mereka demi komunitas fragmentaris – bangsa, ras, keyakinan, kelas – dan baru menyadari bahwa mereka bukan individu ketika mereka disongsong peluru.

The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.

Since the scientific community had largely overlooked Parsons, the OTO became sole guardians of his story. He became the Che Guevara of occultism, his few surviving writings pored over, his magickal workings the subject of intense debate.

Whatever knowledge I possess will I gladly give for the betterment of my fellowmen

If a rich man builds him a new palace, is the gold he pays out gone? No, the brickmaker has part of it and  the laborer has part of it, and the artist has part of it. And everyone who labors upon the house has part of it

Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.

Happiness, so they say, makes one selfish... Alas! this happiness that is in store for some to the detriment of others must make one so, indeed. O my God! Shared happiness, that which one would find by working for the happiness of one's fellow men, would make man as great as his destiny on earth, as good as yourself!

Why sad? Don't be sad. If sad, will make everyone sad.

In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage.

Stood awhile watching, thinking, praying: Lord, give us more. Give us enough. Help us not fall behind peers. Help us not, that is, fall further behind peers. For kids' sake. Do not want them scarred by how far behind we are. That is all I ask.

Our country is big, let us be big.

They didn't have to feel what you felt; they just had to be supported in feeling what they felt.

And we rode forward into the night, past the sleeping houses of our countrymen.