Quotes About Community

Why is it that everyone who's had a baby acts like they're the only one who ever has?

If everyone in New York took sides over these petty, insignificant arguments, no one would have any friends at all.

All of these cities and towns are, in a sense, suburbs of Los Angeles. . . . dominated by Los Angeles.

Los Angeles has always been a boom town, chronically unable to . . . integrate its new population.

Successful agricultural colonies existed in San Bernardino, colonized by the Mormons.

Nearly every special emigrant train carried a clergyman who conducted Sunday services.

Wherever citrus production dominates, a rather distinctive social life has long existed. This citrus belt complex of peoples, institutions, and relationships has no parallel in rural life in America. It is neither town nor country, neither rural nor urban. It is a world of its own.

The children of the grove owners, oppressed by the placidity of . . . Redlands, have begun to leave the area.

The citrus belt . . . has three dominant symbols: the church, the orange, and the 'no-trespass' signs.

The idea, so current in our time, that Southern California is peopled by idlers, oldsters, playboys, and crackpots.

Towns do not develop here,' wrote Sarah Comstock, 'they are instantly created, synthetic communities of a strangely artificial world.

Cleveland, Ohio

Detective Karl Rolvaag belonged in the Midwest. This he knew in his heart, and he was reminded of it every day when he went to work.

It amazed him that people could be so tactless. Being a disfigured felon carried weight in certain social circles, though apparently not on South Beach.

But the creed of liberty means nothing if it is only our own liberty that excites us.

The unprecedented powers that science now makes available must be accompanied by unprecedented levels of ethical focus and concern by the scientific community—as well as the most broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.

The cognitive abilities of chimpanzees force us, I think, to raise searching questions about the boundaries of the community of beings to which special ethical considerations are due.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A

There is an established framework in which any scientist can prove another wrong and make sure everyone else knows about it.

We all have a tendency to succumb to a state of despair about the destructiveness and shortsightedness of the human species. I've certainly done my share (and on grounds I still consider well-based). But one of the discoveries of my illness is the extraordinary community of goodness to which people in my situation owe their lives.

Tides of people will continue to ebb and flow across the planet. But the lands we run to now have already been settled. Other people, often unsympathetic to our plight, are there before us.

reject the notion that science is by its nature secretive. Its culture and ethos are, and for very good reason, collective, collaborative, and communicative.

Thus we do not yet have experience with the adult language abilities of monkeys and apes. One of the most intriguing questions is whether a verbally accomplished chimpanzee mother will be able to communicate language to her offspring. It seems very likely that this should be possible and that a community of chimps initially competent in gestural language could pass down the language to subsequent generations.

The unprecedented powers that science now makes available must be accompanied by unprecedented levels of ethical focus and concern by the scientific community—as well as the sort broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.