Quotes About Community

We could survive as musicians only on our little sliver of the East Coast. We had to get back.

Science tore the human race to bits. When anarchy hit, people struggled for community. The politicians chose enemies so that they could bind their followers with hate and terror. Community isn't enough when a thousand new ways of life beckon from every circuit and test tube.

People will fight harder and more bitterly to defend their communities than they will fight to defend their own individual selves.

From where I sit it today, pirate country starts about ten miles east of me. Foulness, Paglesham and the Blackwater. To this day, pubs out there go silent when a stranger walks in. You're standing on their dirt, after all. A life on the ocean waves is one thing, but blood and soil are entirely another.

Community and anarchy. Politics pulls things together; technology blows them apart.

We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.' We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.

Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers ' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

Das Unwirkliche ist das, was man untereinander nicht teilen kann. Was auch immer aus dieser Gemeinsamkeit herausfällt, das fällt aus dem Kreis menschlicher Angelegenheiten, geht über die Grenzen des menschlichen Theaters, über die Grenzen der Literatur hinaus.

fragilità d'un paese dove le due grandi parti sociali, gli imprenditori e i salariati dell'industria, non considerano lo Stato come cosa propria, ma come cosa estranea, dispensatore di servizi, di favori o di "stangate" … Gli imprenditori italiani non hanno mai considerato lo Stato come un'organizzazione sociale di cui essi fossero direttamente responsabili, sia pure assieme agli altri gruppi sociali che compongono la comunità».

For Schaeffer the local church should have "two orthodoxies: first, an orthodoxy of doctrine and second, an orthodoxy of community.

Of the 1,800 people living in Austin's colony in 1825, one in four was enslaved.7

Both bad driving and bad voting are dangerous not merely to the individual who practices them, but to innocent bystanders.

Changing the people you see, changes the way you see people.

Grace not only rescues individuals from their personal sin; it also creates a new community where the barriers of pretense and pride have been razed because of our mutual dependence on Christ.

Those in a covenant community of God's love do not merely absorb Christ's love individually, their changed lives also reflect his love corporately. We live the law of love because our union with Christ creates community responsibilities, even though fulfilling our responsibilities is not what qualified us for his covenant love.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.

Poverty is about relationships that don't work, that isolate, that abandon or devalue. Transformation must be about restoring relationships, just and right relationships with God, with self, with community, with the "other," and with the environment.

One of the best gifts that we have for the poor and the non-poor is the living word of God. We need to share it with them and let the living word speak for itself.

The poor are poor largely because they live in networks of relationships that do not work for their well-being. Their relationships with others are often oppressive and disempowering as a result of the non-poor "playing god" in the lives of the poor.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.