Quotes About Community

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

We lift the bridge together, Teft," Kaladin said. "And we carry it.

you can't avoid politics by pretending you're not part of them.

What do you think makes a man a good king, Tindwyl of Terris?" "Trust," Tindwyl said, looking him in the eyes. "A good king is one who is trusted by his people—and one who deserves that trust.

We either learn together or we fall individually.

hard times make people willing to accept a man who preaches change.

People are people. Whatever happens, they make communities, struggle for normalcy. Even

Shallan had found that no matter how bad things got, someone would be making tea.

Nobody will think I'm weird, and I won't get into trouble for fighting because my job will be fighting. They won't call me names, and everyone will love me.

Lock a man in prison, and you might stop him from committing crimes. Teach a man to respect himself and his community, and you stopped everyone he might have taught, recruited, or bullied.

The problem with people was that everyone saw other nations from far away. Saw them as big mountainous blobs. Foreigners. Strange. Got it. Up close, it was hard to see people that way. Each was so distinctive.

Every single thing in the city that we touch, see, feel, experience comes as the result of some person's influence.

Her personal studies proved that crime went down when people had a sense of identity with and ownership of their community.

But perhaps most important, the change was in not merely knowing that you weren't alone—but in feeling it. Realizing that no matter how isolated you thought you were, no matter how often your brain told you terrible things, there were others who understood. It wouldn't fix everything. But it was a start.

XinWey's Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest amount of happiness among the greatest number of people while using the least amount of resources.

He's got the emptiness, bad as I do. I can see it in him. We all can. But he gets up anyway. We're trapped in here, and we all want to do something to help. We can't, but somehow he can.

Cities balanced on the edge of sustainability, always one step from starvation. When you pressed so many people together, their cultures, ideas, and stenches rubbed off on one another. The result wasn't civilization. It was contained chaos, pressurized, bottled up so it couldn't escape.

No, I lost every one," Hesho said. "The rest of the assembly voted unanimously against my desires in each matter. What rotten luck! Ah, the indignities you must suffer when your people are a true democracy, and not a shadow dictatorship ruled by an ancestral line of kings. Right?" The other kitsen flying past raised a cheer for democracy.

I know the second oath I am to make. I don't need to be told it. I will unite instead of divide, Stormfather. I will bring men together

In the end, it wasn't the wealth or the job's thrill that made her stay. It was the shadowed prospect—unlikely and unreasonable, but still seductive—of a group whose members actually trusted one another.

Life is changing. We will all feel alone because of this, yes? Ha! Perhaps we can feel alone together.

He wasn't broken. All of them were broken.

I'm not strong enough, I've never been strong enough. You know better than I what your limits are, Wit said. It's not such a terrible thing, to be too weak. Makes us need one another.

Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another.