Quotes About Community

your rank, the bigger the homestead. Despite the modern convenience of cities, almost all

I sincerely hope the neighborhood hasn't considered signing such a petition. Because if they did, I would make them eat it. Slowly.

People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led.

Brutus was dead. His body lay under an oak on the Hendersons' lawn. A small group of neighbors had gathered around his corpse, their faces sad and shocked.

caravan of Pack vehicles

Together the alphas make up the Pack Council. But as Disney taught us, there must be a king

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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.

What does it avail, one will say, that this man has so much talent, that he is so active therewith, and that he exerts thereby a useful influence over the community, thus having a great worth both in relation to his own happy condition and to the benefit of others, if he does not possess a good will?

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

A nation is not (like the ground on which it is located) a possession. It is a society of men whom no one other than the nation itself can command or dispose of.

and intestine wars introduced the reign of anarchy; while the sceptics, like nomadic tribes, who hate a permanent habitation and settled mode of living, attacked from time to time those who had organized themselves into civil communities.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." ? Mother Teresa

Once and for all, we have decided to side with the many.

Barna står ved kirkeporten. Gå og hent dem der. De som har mistet barna sine, kan gå og hente dem ved kirken.

They're trying to make us believe we live in the age of the community, when the individual must perish so that society may live, and we don't want to see that it is society that is dying so the tyrants can live.

Non è che i poveri fossero più impauriti dei ricchi o più attaccati alla vita, ma avevano, più di loro, la tendenza a vivere in gruppo, avevano bisogno gli uni degli altri e di sostenersi a vicenda, di piangere o di ridere insieme.

There were so many! Silently, cautiously, people came out on to their doorsteps again. They tried in vain to count the flood of soldiers. Germans were coming from all directions. They filled the squares and streets—more and more of them, endlessly.

Though the poor were just as afraid as the rich, and valued their lives just as much, they were more sheeplike: they needed each other, needed to link arms, to groan or laugh together. Day was breaking. A silvery blue light slid over the cobblestones, over the parapets along the quayside, over the towers of Notre-Dame.

In spite of everything, the thing that links all these people together is our times, solely our times. Is that really enough? I mean: is this link sufficiently felt?

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

More than 80 percent of participants at these community forums indicated it was very important or extremely important to have their dignity respected, preferences honored, pain controlled, and not to leave family with debt.

The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits, sociologist John McKnight

Many verses in the Quran can be construed as including Christians and Jews in the Muslim community, because Muhammad saw himself at first as a missionary to all peoples but later narrowed his intended audience to pagan Arabs. Muhammad became disillusioned with the People of the Book and condemned them as "unbelievers." Conflict with the Jews led to the redefinition of Islam as a new confessional religion and led to new laws and rituals to provide Muslims with a separate identity.