Quotes About Community

for the most part people prosper when they behave decently and honorably toward one another and live among others who conduct themselves similarly.

When you make yourself interdependent with other people in this way, as Jacob told his offspring to be, there's no stopping you. Each of you can do something, but together all of you can do everything.

money isn't just physical; it's a spiritual reality. It's "spiritual" in that it isn't about folded pieces of paper, and it isn't about what those little slips of paper can buy. It is about people and relationships. Money is the buzz; the connection that makes our interpersonal networks rich and fulfilling.

Deep within traditional Jewish culture lies the conviction that the only real way to achieve wealth is to attend diligently to the needs of others and to conduct oneself in an honorable and trustworthy fashion.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

O movimento indígena – como instância política – cresceu, e se multiplicaram as organizações comunitárias em busca de reivindicações específicas, que culminaram com a necessidade de formar profissionais qualificados em diversas áreas do conhecimento. Essas pessoas – homens e mulheres – formam o que hoje chamo de Indígenas em Movimento, pois atuam de forma autônoma na sociedade brasileira sem abrir mão de sua ancestralidade.

Eles [os indígenas] são parte de cada brasileiro que aqui habita, até dos que não têm ascendência indígena alguma, pois não se trata de sangue, mas, sim, de pertencimento.

Por causa disso tudo é que decidi, quando estava com 9 anos de idade, que, ao me tornar adulto, não seria índio, e sim um ser humano civilizado, capacitado para contribuir com o meu país. O que eu não sabia, no entanto, é que ser índio era algo que estava inscrito dentro de mim; não bastava dizer palavras mágicas para isso desaparecer.

Entendi que cada um dos elementos vivos segura uma ponta do fio da vida e o que fere e machuca a Terra, machuca também a todos nós, os filhos da Terra.

He did not consider it "the function of law to jack up the moral tone of any community." That, he said, was "the function of the home and the church.

The iron miners who belonged to the Italian Club in the town of Virginia, Minnesota, took pains to procure more suitable grapes, dispatching a grocer named Cesare Mondavi to the San Joaquin Valley late each summer to acquire their supply. Inspired to get into the grape business himself, Mondavi soon moved his family to California, where his precocious son Robert would make his own name in the winemaking world.

Toutes les juives ne sont pas mères, mais toutes les mères sont juives.

tu sais le pauvre parle fort, c'est une de ses caractéristiques, un invariant historique et géographique, il parle fort depuis toujours et dans le monde entier, il parle d'autant plus fort qu'il est entouré de pauvres, le pauvre, et qui parlent fort eux aussi, pour se faire entendre, comprends-tu? Le pauvre a la cloison mince. Et il jure beaucoup, c'est vrai, mais sans penser à mal, rassure-toi...

L'homme construit des maisons parce qu'il est vivant, mais il écrit des livres parce qu'il se sait mortel. Il habite en bande parce qu'il est grégaire, mais il lit parce qu'il se sait seul.

But for now they're all reading together, under the influence of that magic that turns a class into a single reading being, while keeping its thirty personalities distinct.

L'homme construit des maisons parce qu'il est vivant, mais il écrit des livres parce qu'il se sait mortel. Il habite en bande parce qu'il est grégaire, mais il lit parce qu'il se sait seul. Cette lecture lui est une compagnie qui ne prend la place d'aucune autre, mais qu'aucune autre compagnie ne saurait remplacer.

Le bonheur individuel se doit de produire des retombées collectives, faute de quoi, la société n'est qu'un rêve de prédateur.

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

It's rough being without a librarian for a whole month, isn't it?" Starr Lackawanna said. "Yes!" we all said.

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I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.