Quotes About Community

You can get everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want.

IF PEOPLE WOULD only be satisfied with the essentials and if they'd only try to improve everyone else's well-being and share in their common concerns, they'd conquer the world and have more than they ever wanted from it. —RABBI BAHYA IBN PAQUDA (11TH CENTURY)

When you live with other people and you are content to make a mess in shared spaces, you dishonor the people you live with.

In Pirkei Avot4 we learn that "the world stands on three things: on the Torah, on the service of God, and upon acts of loving-kindness.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good for their country, come together to work for it. I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. —HEBREWS 13:1–2

the most important currency a congregation has to spend is hope.

the earliest Christian services were not held in churches, but in homes.

To Aristotle, who said the antidote to fifty enemies was one friend.

He'd never had much to do with the police in the Nottinghamshire village where he lived. They existed at a distance, as it were, and Joshua's life hadn't led him closer than that. By accident his actions had been law-abiding.

We know you weren't in the house', he said, starting up again, cranking himself with the handle. They always say 'We', 'We', never 'I' 'I' - as if they feel braver and righter knowing there's a lot of them against only one.

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I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

When she was not persuading him that he was, like all men without a woman in their lives, utterly helpless, she indulged in an unending tide of gossip. This mainly concerned people her son had never heard of, nor, on the strength of their entire life histories, had any wish for further acquaintance.

Glasgow is a magnificent city," said McAlpin. "Why do we hardly ever notice that?" "Because nobody imagines living here…think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

We) are never able to seek for the good or exercise the virtues only qua individual ... we all approach our own circumstances as bearers of a particular social identity. I am someone's son or daughter, a citizen of this or that city. I belong to this clan, that tribe, this nation. ... I inherit from the past of my family, my city, my tribe, my nation, a variety of debts, inheritances, expectations and obligations.

The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.

The individual carries his communal roles with him as part of the definition of his self, even into his isolation.