Quotes About Community

When the existence of the Church is threatened, she is released from the commandments of morality. With unity as the end, the use of every means is sanctified, even deceit, treachery, violence, usury, prison, and death. Because order serves the good of the community, the individual must be sacrificed for the common good. Ludwig von Pastor, History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages, after Dietrich von Nieheim in De modis uniendiae reformandi ecclesiam, 1410

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

He plough on Sunday, Sir. Plough on Sunday?!

ANN: Nobody was dressed so he drove over to the depot to pick up my brother. SUE: Oh, your brother's in? ANN: Yeah, they ought to be here any minute now. Will you have a cold drink? SUE: I will, thanks. Ann goes to table and pours. My husband. Too hot to drive me to beach.—Men are like little boys; for the neighbors they'll always cut the grass.

MOTHER: What more can we be! CHRIS: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's why he died.

People who help others on a regular basis are ten times more likely to be healthy than people who do not.

Doing good induces others to reciprocate.

Generous people are likely to receive more respect from their peers.

Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.

To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life.

So treibt das Bedürfnis der Gesellschaft, aus der Leere und Monotonie des eigenen Innern entsprungen, die Menschen zueinander; aber ihre vielen widerwärtigen Eigenschaften und unerträglichen Fehler stoßen sie wieder voneinander ab.

A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter; but, as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse. However the cold drove them together again, when just the same thing happened. . . . In the same way the need of society drives the human porcupines together, only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature

Die allermeiste Gesellschaft ist so beschaffen, dass wer sie gegen die Einsamkeit vertauscht einen guten Handel macht.

At home there were cards and calls from friends and family. I heard from people I had not seen in years and was surprised they even knew I had cancer. These messages in particular gave me what I think ill people need most, a sense that many others, more than you can think of, care deeply that you live.

Si resuena el Avapiés en mí, como fondo sobre todas las resonancias de mi vida, es por dos razones: Allí aprendí todo lo que sé, lo bueno y lo malo. A rezar a Dios y a maldecirle. A odiar y a querer. A ver la vida cruda y desnuda, tal como es. Y a sentir el ansia infinita de subir y ayudar a subir a todos el escalón de más arriba. Esta es una razón. La otra razón es que allí vivió mi madre. Pero esta razón es mía.

People always loved best what they identified most with.

The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively Indian war. Its a war for the rivers and the mountains and the forests of the world. All sorts of warriors from all over the world, anyone who wishes to enlist, will be honored and welcomed. Every kind of warrior will be needed. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, judges, journalists, students, sportsmen, painters, actors, singers, lovers . . . The borders are open, folks! Come on in.

The word Hijra, she said, meant a Body in which a Holy Soul lives.

People—communities, castes, races and even countries—carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be bought and sold on the open market.

So on the days that the radio played Ammu's songs, people avoided her, made little loops around her, because everybody agreed that it was best to just Let Her Be.

Once you have fallen off the edge like all of us have, including our Biroo," Anjum said, "you will never stop falling. And as you fall you will hold on to other falling people. The sooner you understand that the better. This place where we live, where we have made our home, is the place of falling people. Here there is no haqeeqat. Arre, even we aren't real. We don't really exist.

Funding as fragmented solidarity in ways that repression never could.