Quotes About Community

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

Secondo alcuni ci si trova di fronte a un "dilemma democratico" che si può enunciare in questo modo: più una entità/unità politica è piccola e dunque direttamente controllabile dai suoi cittadini, più sono ridotti i suoi ambiti di sovranità. [...] D'altra parte, più l'entità territoriale è estesa più si indeboliscono le opportunità di partecipazione dei cittadini.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

They're shepherds. A shepherd eats the sheep, but he loves them, protects them against the wolves, tends the flock and helps it multiply.

What has to happen to us before we understand that we have to take good care of everything we have, of every tree in our boundless forests, every little stream that isn't even marked on the maps, every village with only five households, every soldier drafted into the army, every man in the street toiling under his dreary daily burden? What will it take to change us?

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Por tanto, si tu hermano peca contra ti, ve y repréndele estando tú y él solos; si te oyere, has ganado a tu hermano" (Mateo 18:15 RV1960).

The either/or proposition that forces you to choose between your community and, say, your country has never been true. The very skills we learn to cross borders within ourselves help us to cross borders toward others outside our community.

I believe we have reached a point where those of us who belong to this culture of la frontera in Ysleta and El Paso are not content to sit back and watch others tell us who we are. We know who we are, and we ourselves can tell others about what we love and what we fear and what we hate and what can save us. I believe our community has developed that confidence to step forward and start taking responsibility for the many images that are projected in the name of Ysleta and El Paso.

In this country, not enough of us are crossing borders: We are not a We anymore. This is the central problem our country will have for the next fifty years. If we overcome it and create a new America, we will have many more good chapters of history together as a community. If we don't, we will begin and accelerate a decline in our country, with ramifications that could unfold over many nightmarish scenarios.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

The World Race is an eleven-month program that initiates young adults into a lifestyle of following Jesus by living as the early disciples did for a year.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

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Combined with the self-reinforcing nature of online communities and a content-starved, cash-poor journalistic culture that gravitates towards neat narratives at the expense of messy truths, this disdain for actualities has led to a world with increasingly porous boundaries between facts and beliefs, a world in which individualized notions of reality, no matter how bizarre or irrational, are repeatedly validated.

My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

A lot of people have lived richer lives because someone who cared took the time to listen.

Everybody has their style and way of seeing things, but dance is that home where all unite as one humanity

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.