Quotes About Community

ejidos." The teaching centers were "foci for ideological fermentation

El cuerpo no era un recinto sagrado, era un bien comunitario que se podía obsequiar por gratitud o compañerismo.

Siempre he pensado que, cuando oscurece, todos necesitamos a alguien.

No sé, uno necesita de vez en cuando pensar que no todos los extraños que nos rodean son seres horribles.

The Jewish anomaly thus

Now emancipated, they became members of a political entity that transcended the borders of the religious community built around the synagogue; they ceased to be an external element, whether stigmatized or tolerated, persecuted or enjoying 'privileges' within society. Before this major turn they led a life apart, despite the generalized lack of political rights – their condition was certainly better than that of enserfed peasants.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

No necesitamos tanto de la ayuda de nuestros amigos cuanto de la confianza en esa ayuda.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.

I write this not for the many, but for you; each of us is enough of an audience for the other.

amount of fear that most Jews perceived grew in a nearly linear fashion

relations between Jews and non-Jews not only became worse almost immediately after 1933, but they continued to worsen over time.

Pastimes form the basis for the selection of acquaintances, and may lead to friendship. A party of women who drop in at each other's houses every morning for coffee to play "Delinquent Husband" are likely to give a cool reception to a new neighbor who wants to play "Sunny Side Up.

We all know, either implicitly or explicitly, that all we really have is our place in the memories of others. We exist to the degree that we know and remember one another. Even the most isolated among us. We share a collective understanding that we are all part of a greater whole. Perhaps

rising tide floats all boats. And that includes the full history of the Armenians who lived within and outside the Ottoman Empire.

one day a disciple came to complain to his teacher. 'Rabbi, some of the congregants are gossiping in the midst of prayer!' " Spira smiled crookedly. "Not such a different world after all, then. And the rabbi's response?" " 'O God,' said the rabbi. 'How wonderful are your people! Even in the midst of gossip, they devote a few moments to prayer!

Black troops helped construct schools, churches, and orphanages, organized debating societies, and held political gatherings where "freedom songs" were sung and soldiers delivered "speeches of the most inflammatory kind.