Quotes About Community

Any idea, no matter how bizarre, can seem mainstream if you're able to find a handful of others who will believe along with you.

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.

Collaring neds for breaking and entering is one thing, managing the gay community outreach program and training constables is another, but international cybercrime in a nuclear bunker under Drum Brae is right off the map.

We loved them individually so much that we betrayed them collectively.

When humans gather, crime is certain.

People." I pause for a moment. "Remind me of Peel's Principles of Policing, again?" Ramona looks blank. Mhari looks skeptical. "Policing by consent," I hint. "Come on, the basic rules we play by? Minimum use of force to achieve compliance, the performance of a police force is judged best by how little crime takes place on their watch rather than by how many heads they kick in, that kind of thing?" "Since

People." I pause for a moment. "Remind me of Peel's Principles of Policing, again?" Ramona looks blank. Mhari looks skeptical. "Policing by consent," I hint. "Come on, the basic rules we play by? Minimum use of force to achieve compliance, the performance of a police force is judged best by how little crime takes place on their watch rather than by how many heads they kick in, that kind of thing?

the frisson of fear that comes from knowing that you're safe even while the tigers noisily devour your neighbor.

I am asking Julius to explain, I said, why his people are so partial to chickens.

Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house.

Yes, the probability that five people in the same school or church or workplace will contract the same rare form of leukemia may be one in a million, but there are millions of schools and churches and workplaces

may we not be strangers in the lush province of joy

Language is what we use to tell stories, transmit knowledge, and build social bonds. It comforts, tickles, excites, and destroys. Every society has language, and somehow we all learn a language in the first few years of our lives, a process that has been repeated for as long as humans have been around. Unlike swimming, using Microsoft Windows, or making the perfect lemon souffle — which some of us never manage to do — learning a language is a task we can all take for granted.

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties – these books exist, and they're tempting – but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

None of us lives unto ourselves. We're each a part of the whole, a member of our community and of God's world.

When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

My dad's funeral was one of those instances when you're reminded of what it means to show up for people. The tradition

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

A.J. was one of the guys. One of the guys with breasts, a shapely butt, and sparkling green eyes.

The woven belt once worn around the waist by both men and women symbolized the participation of individuals in society, their place in the community, and the agreement to be, quite literally, bound by its rules. When the reverse was practised, taking off one's belt signified a readiness to enter the realm of the spirits. For women, the power could be amplified by unbraiding their hair, as mentioned above.

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

The world is large," said Okonkwo. "I have even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and her family." "That cannot be," said Machi. "You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.