Quotes About Community

Holidays are necessary celebrations of human collectiveness. It reminds us we're a part of society. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow

We're all in this human experience together, so let's try to be kind, gracious, and compassionate to each other." - Kailin Gow in Interview

It's the kind of kitchen people don't just cook in, they live in it. Just stepping into it reminds me of where I am, and I'm at home instantly.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

There is a place for everyone in the world. When you find yours, your heart will call it home. - Kailin Gow, Fearless Fairy Tales Series

She's done so much to care for others, whether it's inviting inner city kids into her school to keep them out of trouble and away from gangs, or taking me and the others in every summer, or just doing so much to help her students with their dreams.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

A membership or community website that allows bullying of authors and their members to bring in traffic, is appalling and should be held accountable for hate speech, libel, and slander. It breaks down the community, condones bullying, and sets a tone for their teen members and members of any age to become bullies themselves. - Kailin Gow, October is Bully Awareness Speech.

That's part of why I invited you all around. She needs you, and I think you need her too, Summer. As proud as I am of you, being an only child of a single mother, I think sometimes you do need the advice of a good friend.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Everything I've done has been to try to make things better for my people, and we've succeeded. We've actually done what we set out to do.", FADE by Kailin Gow

My family and I have always supported Asian and Asian Americans, especially our fellow authors and artists. I just found out my Crazy Rich Asian cousin bought out some theaters to support the Crazy Rich Asians film. Talk about crazy! - The Asian American Experience Anthology by Kailin Gow

The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state. Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

Keep the music going! We don't even GOT nothing and we keep the music going!

to seek what is for the benefit of all",

The Christian God is not just a unit but a union, not just unity but community. There

We think the Trinity, speak the Trinity, breathe the Trinity.

The old men used to say that we should each of us look upon our neighbor's experiences as if they were our own. We should suffer with our neighbor in everything and weep with him, and should behave as if we were inside his body; and if any trouble befalls him, we should feel as much distress as we would for ourselves"21 (The Sayings of the Desert Fathers). All this is true, precisely because man is made in the image of God the Trinity.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

If a man is to die defending a field, let the field be his field, the land his land, the people his people.

You don't mind the exclusivity, you just mind that you aren't part of it, Layla had said once, as if this was a Maryam-specific attitude rather than absolutely everyone's objection to exclusivity.

I hate the Muslims who make people hate Muslims, he'd replied quietly.

They opt in to being tagged by their friends. That's a different thing to the police watching you at all times because you're a climate activist or a guy who goes to a mosque.

I…I belong to those who care about me.

Everyone Fears Yamraj, Yamraj Is Only Afraid Of JAAT

I left Bulgaria when I was a seventeen-year-old East European, and I am now, by all appearances, a 32-year-old 'global soul'. But everybody needs a borrowed 'us' from time to time, even a global soul. And after half a lifetime and several other countries, the Bulgarian 'us' is still the only honest one I have.