Quotes About Community

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again—these are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Primero una fundación de la orden trapense tradicional. Después una reforma de la orden trapense. Después una fundación fuera de esa orden. Por último, una pequeña comunidad llevando una vida sencilla sin regla y sin hábito.

In these circumstances people in poor families who can't pay their way are surrounded by an atmosphere of barely disguised acrimony; they stop being father, mother, sister or brother and become a purely negative factor in the struggle for life and, by extension, a source of bitterness for the healthy members of the community who resent their illness as if it were a personal insult to those who have to support them.

Individualism as such, as the isolated action of a person alone in a social environment, must disappear in Cuba. Individualism tomorrow should be the proper utilization of the whole individual, to the absolute benefit of the community.

While gentrification has tamed El Barrio, it cannot rewrite its past...

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.

I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. Theyve been a great inspiration to me.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

No entrance without any exit, no possible society without a spacious graveyard.

Belief in these solitary men springs from a longing for a fraternity without name, for a deeper spiritual relationship than is possible between human beings.

Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him on foot, by car, or by telephone. Employees of the gas, the electric, and the water- works will arrive; agents from life and fire insurance companies; building inspectors, collectors of radio tax; mortgage creditors and rent assessors who tax you for living in your own home.

La Guerra, que tantas cosas nos quita, es generosa en este aspecto; nos educa para una comunidad masculina y vuelve a situar en el lugar que les corresponde unos valores que estaban semiolvidados.

Un ser humano es más que la suma de átomos, miembros, órganos y humores de que consta; una familia es más que el esposo, la esposa y el hijo. Una amistad es más que dos hombres; y un pueblo es más que aquello que puede expresarse por el resultado de un censo de población o por una suma de votos políticos

perché ogni copia di libro può appartenere a molte vite e i libri dovrebbero stare incustoditi nei posti pubblici e spostarsi insieme ai passanti che se li portano dietro per un poco...

Pagò il suo vino, non quello della donna, se no l'oste ne avrebbe parlato per l'inverno. In un villaggio bisogna saperci stare. In un posto dove ci si saluta tutti chiamandosi per nome, ci sono usanze sconosciute alla città.

The freedom we want, for ourselves and for others, is not an absolute metaphysical, abstract freedom which in practice is inevitably translated into the oppression of the weak; but it is real freedom, possible freedom, which is the conscious community of interests, voluntary solidarity.

By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.

we are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society

Anarchism is organization, organization and more organization.

Anarchy is synonymous with Socialism. Because both signify the abolition of exploitation and of the domination of man over man, whether maintained by the force of arms or by the monopolization of the means of life.

Unico modo per arrivare alla scoperta del meglio è la libertà, libertà di aggruppamento, libertà di esperimento, libertà completa senz'altro limite sociale che quello dell'uguale libertà degli altri.

Anarchists present a new method; the free initiative of all and free agreement; then, after the revolutionary abolition of private property, every one will have equal power to dispose of social wealth.