Quotes About Community

The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible (...) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals.

Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.

Often, one compensates by playing an instrument, or going hiking, or joining some club. In other words, one creates a new type of society, when not working, in which one can feel more at home.

But what could I want with riches? The true wealth is the love of one's people.

We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.

Remember, you once said, Lije, that people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don't know how to fix themselves.

People sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don't know how to fix themselves.

En mi respuesta le decía: Avram, tú y yo somos judíos que vivimos en un país que es no judío en un noventa y cinco por ciento y nos las arreglamos bastante bien. Me pregunto cómo nos desenvolveríamos, Avram, si fuéramos gentiles y viviéramos en un país con un noventa y cinco por ciento de judíos ortodoxos. Memorias

I, as Mayor of Terminus City, have just

Nobody lives in splendid singleness.

Can a condemned tribe lead itself to its own burial?

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.

Aquí la locura se repartió entre todos y no sobró nada para tener nuestro propio loco de remate.

los humanos somos criaturas gregarias, que no estamos programados para la soledad, sino para dar y recibir.

The rural women taught me that courage is contagious and that there's strength in numbers; what you can't do on your own can be achieved together, the more the better.

No creas que eres alguien especial o mejor que los otros, acuérdate de que al clavo más prominente le cae el martillazo».

know what helps most in misfortune, Irina? To talk. Nobody can go around in this world all alone. Why do you think I set up the pain clinic? Because shared pain is more bearable. The clinic is useful for the patients but is even more useful to me. We all have demons in the dark recesses of our soul, but if we bring them out into the light, they grow smaller and weaker, they fall silent and eventually leave us in peace." Irina tried to free herself from the tentacle-like

Esas mujeres del campo me enseñaron que el coraje es contagioso y que la fuerza está en el número; lo que no se logra sola se consigue entre varias, y mientras más sean, mejor.

The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world," she eventually told Irina. "They have lived a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn't care less about other people's opinion. You'll never get bored here. Our residents are well educated, and if they're in good health they keep on learning and experimenting. This community stimulates them and they can avoid the worst scourge of old age: loneliness." Irina

More than by upper-class señoritas, with their long legs and blond manes, I've been impressed by the women of the people: mature, strong, hard-working, earthy.

Someone like him who thought more about himself than he did his community, had no place in the tribe. Individualism was thought to be a form of madness, like being possessed by a demon.

shared pain is more bearable.

the Nordic concept of janteloven, which meant: Don't think you're so special—remember that the nail that sticks out is the one the hammer hits.

Nada nos divierte tanto a los chilenos como burlarnos de nosotros mismos, aunque jamás soportaríamos que lo hiciese un extranjero.