Quotes About Community

the men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty—all equal before sleep, death's brother.

Each station should be like a beacon on the road towards better things, a centre for trade of course, but also for humanizing, improving, instructing.

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

looking out for the other guy isn't just good for the soul; it's good for business. The

Especialmente en este contexto, el apoyo de la comunidad empresarial al presidente Trump resulta cínico y descorazonador, sobre todo para quienes guardan aunque sea un débil recuerdo del surgimiento del fascismo en la década de 1930.

El éxito de Trump ha sido el de formar una coalición con la comunidad empresarial, igual que entonces: los fascistas solo llegaron al poder con el apoyo de una amplia coalición conservadora que incluía al empresariado.

from the pack, offered it to

Remember the old guy with the bell?

Backbiting and gossip are the third type of unskillful speech. Words of this nature cause disharmony and the loss of friends.

One of the oldest recitations of faith in Buddhism is taking refuge in what is called the Triple Gem: the Buddha himself, that person who awakened under the Bodhi Tree twenty-five hundred years ago; the Dharma, the truth, the law, and the body of teachings; and the Sangha, which means, in particular, the order of monks and nuns and, more generally, the community of wise beings. "I take refuge in the Buddha, I take refuge in the Dharma, I take refuge in the Sangha.

if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system."18

As individuals, we have enormous difficulty thinking the negative. We see patterns all around us, and each new day brings new evidence that confirms our belief in them. Thinking through the hypothetical "What if I am wrong?" is not something that comes naturally. Having other people around whose sole interest lies in doing just that not only serves as an external corrective, it also pushes us to think in a way that our thoughts do not naturally go.

our ability to enter into cooperative relations with one another is based upon the rational insight that we can all be better off if we follow some mutually agreed-upon rules.22

Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise.

One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.

During the day, they avoided him, even Aarfy, and Yossarian understood that they were different people together in daylight than they were alone in the dark.

We need a language that brings us together about the deepest things we care about rather than pushing us apart.

participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects

Always make it a special point to rejoice in the wealth of another person.

Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others. —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Rabbi Hiyya advised his wife, "When a poor man comes to the door, be quick to give him food so that the same may be done to your children." She exclaimed, "You are cursing our children [with the suggestion that they may become beggars]." But Rabbi Hiyya replied, "There is a wheel which revolves in this world." —Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b

Ameikh ami, ve'Elo-hai-ikh Elo-hai—Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.