Quotes About Community

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

I think that the world is full of really, really good musicians, but that's not necessarily my motivation for having people involved. It's more how they contribute to the scene as a person.

I'm a Christian and my motivation for joining activism is that I think we should be salt and light.

I hope I represent a type of politics where we bring people together, where we inspire people - and we do it with this motivation of building a world that's better for everybody.

Being adopted was my motivation to help others by first becoming successful.

I think that's why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they're older, because I think loneliness and having no motivation, nothing to work towards... I think it kills you.

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

I don't belong to a motorcycle club, but I know a lot of guys who do. I ride with some guys who do.

Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.

the breakdown of law and order brought on by constantly stirred bitter resentments almost invariably leads to more suffering among the less fortunate.

Institutions, no less than persons, may need to be socialized.

Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

They were like men in a zoo; he gazed at them, looking for all the little particular markings of the town, the fine mapping upon their limbs and faces of their own little cosmos.

Az ország sorsa nem azon múlik, hogy miként szavazol, mert ebben a játékban a legsilányabb ember is ugyanannyit ér, mint a legjobb; nem azon múlik, hogy milyen papírt engedsz a kezedbÅ'l a szavazóurnába egyszer egy évben, hanem hogy milyen embert engedsz a szobádból az utcára minden egyes reggel.

Conspicuous abstention from labour therefore becomes the conventional mark of superior pecuniary achievement and the conventional index of reputability; and conversely, since application to productive labour is a mark of poverty and subjection, it becomes inconsistent with a reputable standing in the community.

we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

However well off a man may be in his private life, he will still be involved in the general ruin if his country is destroyed; whereas, so long as the state itself is secure, individuals have a much greater chance of recovering from their private misfortunes.

those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Never saw so many peaceful wrecks in my life.... That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

We still don't have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it 'social capital, or maybe 'trust'. Others call it 'the rule of law', or 'institutions'. But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it's in most people's interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else.