Quotes About Community

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: I know just what you mean.

All human beings have always aspired to an idyll, to that garden where nightingales sing, to that realm of harmony where the world does not rise up as a stranger against man and man against other men, but rather where the world and all men are shaped from one and the same matter. There, everyone is a note in a sublime Bach fugue, and anyone who refuses to be one is a mere useless and meaningless black dot that need only be caught and crushed between thumb and finger like a flea.

Look around you. Of all the people you see, no one is here by his own wish. Of course, what I just said is the most banal truth there is. So banal, and so basic, that we've stopped seeing it and hearing it.

From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.

Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.

And he reflected that one cannot completely become his own self until one is completely among others.

El hombre no es más que su imagen. Los filósofos pueden decirnos que es irrelevante lo que el mundo piense de nosotros, que sólo vale lo que somos. Pero los filósofos no comprenden nada. En la medida en que vivimos con la gente, no somos más que lo que la gente piensa que somos.

Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor helmets.

El libro era para Teresa la contraseña de una hermandad secreta.

caci, adeseori din clipa in care anumite fiinte umane formeaza o colectivitate, ele devin, unele pentru altele, niste ceruri straine.

E qualcos'altro lo elevava: teneva sul tavolo un libro aperto. In quel bar nessuno aveva mai aperto un libro sul tavolo. Un libro era per Tereza il segno di riconoscimento di una fratellanza segreta. Contro il mondo della volgarità che la circondava, essa aveva infatti un'unica difesa: i libri che prendeva in prestito alla biblioteca comunale…

See nõrkus, mis tollal oli paistnud Terezale talumatu, eemaletõukav ja mis oli ta maalt minema ajanud, tõmbas teda korraga ligi. Ta adus, et kuulub nõrkade hulka, nõrkade leeri, nõrkade maale ja et ta peab olema neile ustav just seepärast, et nad on nõrgad ja ahmivad keset lauset õhku.

But people who do not spend time with their compatriots, like Irena or Odysseus, are inevitably stricken with amnesia.

Quem vive no exterior caminha num espaço vazio acima do solo sem a rede de proteção que o país de origem estende a todo ser humano, onde ele tem família, colegas, amigos, e onde é compreendido sem dificuldade no idioma que sabe falar desde a infância.

Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.

The family, rather than the individual, has always been and remains today the basic building block of our society, though its hold has clearly been weakening—one of the most unfortunate consequences of the growth of government paternalism.

Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political rallies. We crave tribal membership.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

Saintly people not only are responsible for themselves, but for everyone.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.