Quotes About Community

Hama today is nearly without men. There are only women and old people. My sister calls it "the Widow City.

no country in the world is paying attention to me. Not a single one is doing anything to protect any fraction of the rights that I should have as a human being living on earth. I'm not saying that the conscience of the international community is asleep. I'm saying that conscience doesn't exist at all.

We were thirty-five people in one house. The women would sleep in one room and the men in another. When there was shelling, we'd be about three hundred people in the underground shelter.

I'm not saying that the conscience of the international community is asleep. I'm saying that the conscience doesn't exist at all.

You know, many Alawites hated the Assad regime, and I think the regime knew that. They also know that the Alawite community is their lifeline, their base for survival.

Last year, they shelled the market on the holiday at the end of Ramadan. People left the market. Half an hour later, everyone returned and went back to buying and selling.

The girls who choose Bryn Mawr," I said, "have often been outcasts and misfits. When they come to Bryn Mawr, they're transformed." And I set forth my theory of our empowerment in our collective oddity.

Community of interest is the root of justice; community of suffering, the root of pity; community of joy, the root of love,

The human desire to not be alone in the world is powerful. More powerful, perhaps, than reason or conscience or fear.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

Church doors are open, but social media is crowded.

Coffee connects me to the world, wine disconnects me".

Everything multiplies when knowledge is shared.

Grasshoppers don't plant." They migrate after consuming everything that belongs to the other.

The best company is the one that turns water into wine.

The plane has wings, but it doesn't fly alone.

There is no army greater than an unarmed united people defending a country.

We cannot permit strong chieftains or groups of young Huns to attempt the founding of customs that serve only their purpose. Customs are of nations, not of individuals.

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the 'village' is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that!