Quotes About Community

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

Our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere: in our bodies, in the environment, and especially in other people.

The secret to our success is that we live in a world in which knowledge is all around us. It is in the things we make, in our bodies and workspaces, and in other people. We live in a community of knowledge.

Dyslexia "it is more common than you can imagine, you are not alone

They meant that a people who used common lands for common uses lived within a deviant economic culture.

A man without human contact is a man without aid, without hope, without life.

I once got a fortune cookie at the China Star Café in Muncie, Indiana that said, "Surround yourself with people who are what you are not." That cookie was more useful than all five months of Philosophy 101 I sat through.

But many other people will fail to adhere to the recommendations of health authorities. These people will engage in seeming self-defeating behaviors such as refusing to get vaccinated, if a vaccine is available. These people will refuse to stay home when they are sick. They will spread infection to other people.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

How can there be self-help groups?

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead....Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms.

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

Men go crazy in congregations They only get better one by one

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

You were part of something, and miraculously, you survived that part.

My hostess had an extensive family of brats, sticky-mouthed and staring, who were huddled around a delightfully huge fire.

At that moment, I was glad to have fellow rational beings with me, whatever their age and experience.

Family closeness was not an attribute that could be applied to the Malagashes.