Quotes About Community

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.

There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

Some people collect stamps or beer mats; Mum collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people, and as she believed, a whole host of "little people." Had she been confronted that night with a lion,she'd have made the same comment "The poor thing.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Common aim is stronger than blood.

The highest aim and the meaning even of human life is to strive to do your best for the wellbeing of your neighbour, which is only possible by renouncing your own self-interest.

It takes sometime and a lot of looking around but you eventually find that your home is alot more just the house you live in.

My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country" really is? Nothing more or less than a gathering of shareholders, a form of property, bourgeois mentality, and vanity. Think about all the people in your country whom you wouldn't go near, and you'll see that the ties that are supposed to bind us together don't go very deep....

It was true that the elders found everything changing all about them with a precipitation which was leaving them stripped of authority. The girls (kids they remembered no bigger than that) suddenly flowered and married. The lads returned from their military service with blasé airs and a new vocabulary. A horde of new brats was born, making their disprespectful uproar in Clochemerle.

In a small community sex constitutes the most accessible and least extravagant pastime of all, rustic love being rarely mercenary.

At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable.

C'è chi cammina in mezzo a un popolo come in mezzo a una foresta d'alberi tutti eguali, indifferente; ma c'è qualcuno, continuamente ansioso, che cerca in ogni volto la muta risposta a una muta domanda. Per costui non ci sono su la terra stranieri.

C'est si petit, si laid et si plein d'enfants chez nous.

Au Quinze-Cents, on sert le monde. On vient fatigué de servir le monde. On se tanne donc de servir le monde...Mais en soirée, le monde...ah!

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.

He loved the intimacy of being in a tight group of people who had come together, miraculously, for a brief period in time, for the purpose of making art.

There's no game without the NPCs. There's just some bullshit hero, wandering around with no one to talk to and nothing to do.

There is no purity to bearing pain alone.