Quotes About Community

I felt more at home in Cambridge than I ever had in Dillon.

He longed for community and a sense of belonging that had been absent from the austere atmosphere of his own home.

Madeline Bassett is the Charybdis to Florence Craye's Scylla. Just as deadly to the seafaring community, but offering a subtly different form of death by drowning. Whereas Florence dashes you on the rocks of her intellectual disapproval, Madeline engulfs you in a sentimental whirlpool of froth.

And as for social justice, if social is supposed to be opposed to individual, then social justice is by definition unjust. The

As a society, we have robbed men of their protective missions. Men who seek to protect women and children are called anti-feminist, gender normative. Men have abandoned their responsibilities to the state. As for building things — well, there too, men have been told that to build is to act selfishly, without concern for the community. And young men have no male role models, since many of their fathers have abandoned them or abandoned true maleness in pursuit of vainglorious brutality.

if social is supposed to be opposed to individual, then social justice is by definition unjust.

Where the Athenians were tepid with regard to individual purpose in the absence of community, they were religious in their belief in individual capacity. They passionately advocated the notion of an order to the universe, and insisted repeatedly that mankind had not just the capacity but the obligation to uncover that order.

The best countries—and the best societies—are those where citizens are virtuous enough to sacrifice for the common good but unwilling to be forced to sacrifice for the "greater" good.

Love for each other. Care for each other. Sacrifice for each other. And that's what I'm going to ask of all Americans

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society," Rousseau wrote.

If we all sit in our living rooms and avoid one another, interacting only to prop up our preconceived notions, we're less likely to see those who disagree as brothers and sisters.

individual purpose lay in acting virtuously—fulfilling our telos by pursuing right reason in accordance with nature. Virtue, in turn, could only be defined with reference to the community. The individual, in this view, tends to disappear into the community.

As already noted, communal purpose was wrapped up with individual purpose: if the goal of the individual was to find happiness through virtuous citizenry, the goal of the community had to be promotion of that virtue.

What, then, of communal capacity? The community was tasked with two separate functions: instilling virtue in the citizenry, and protecting the citizens from the violation of natural law.

My definition of survivor encompasses people going through difficult times and also the friends and family who stand beside them. In the cancer community, they're called cosurvivors or secondary patients.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

The light in which the city is cast by writers, poets and artists helps determine the kind of cities we get.

Tenements were a screenwriter's dream—lively, interesting places that lent themselves to narrative.

In examining the history of cities, I looked for material in markets, souks and bazaars; in swimming pools, stadiums and parks; in street-food stalls, coffee houses and cafés; in shops, malls and department stores. I interrogated paintings, novels, films and songs as much as official records in search of the lived experience of cities and the intensity of their daily life.

If you refuse to go to the market, how would you know of the existence of others? How would you know of your own existence?

Cities create entirely new taboos and restrictions even as they liberate.

A city is one of the miracles of human existence. What prevents the human ant heap from degenerating into violence is civility, the spoken and unspoken codes that govern day-to-day interactions between people.

There is, in short, something terribly wrong with claiming to be a devout Christian while hating one or another of the fellow believers.

The 'factious person' ... is the one who insists on such divisive debates even when their consequences become obvious. Such a person would rather be right than righteous, would rather maintain theoretical integrity than the health of the community. ,264