Quotes About Community

You can take the people out of the city, but you can't take the soul — that remains here.

Let us begin by turning the skeptic's question on its head. If you could believe in God, why wouldn't you? There is good evidence that those who believe in a loving God have happier lives. Loneliness is bad for people in many different ways—it diminishes immune function, increases blood pressure, and depresses cognitive function—and we know that people who believe in God are less lonely.

The goal in Japan is not to isolate the criminal from society, but precisely the opposite. A convict is sent back to his neighborhood, family, and job so that the social pressure to fit in and the pain of being shamed before the group will lead him to go straight.

has a less than 1-in-20 shot at making it to the top. The idea that so many children are born into poverty in the wealthiest nation on Earth is heartbreaking enough. But the idea that a child may never be able to escape that poverty because she lacks a decent education or health care, or a community that views her future as their own, that should offend all of us and it should compel us to

Cada ser y cada cosa del universo tan solo existen en función de su coexistencia con los otros seres y con las otras cosas. La independencia de un ser o una cosa es el resultado de la interdependencia de todos los seres y de todas las cosas.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Well, there now,' sighed Miss Malvina. 'Everyone else can go off into the world, but we're doomed to stay here and live.

There is no limit to the good a man can do, if he doesn?t care who gets the credit.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Tribes With Flags

You keep your nerves on edge and you're always ready to lash out. You distance yourself from everyone. It's because you are afraid of people. You are the weakest person in this village

I will be a positive influence on others and will encourage them to give their best. I will surround myself with positive people who will also encourage me to be my best.

Don't judge a home by its appearance, but by the warmth of its welcome.

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.

Responsibility is the ability to respond, which implies a larger context, a community, a world of other actors and thinkers, and God as a major player too, with intricate processes linking heaven to earth. This

live with their family. She was right, it was better for me to be part of a family unit.

A single tree will never make an orchard.

If everyone were allowed to interpret the ambiguous passages for themselves, their conclusions might diverged wildly. People would move apart in as many different directions as there were people, the community would fragment, and the world swallow up the pieces and who was to say the great revelation would not then vanish as if it had never been?

what the Muslim world has reified over the course of history is the idea that society should be divided into a men's and a women's realm and that the point of connection between the two should only be in the private arena, so that sexuality can be eliminated as a factor in the public life of the community.

The fact is, we humans don't live directly in the physical universe. We live in a model of the world we have created collectively through language and which we maintain communally. That model was already in existence when we were born; we merely made our way into it as we matured. Becoming an adult meant gaining the ability to imagine the same world as everyone else.

Many religions say to their followers, "The world is corrupt, but you can escape it." Islam said to its followers, "The world is corrupt, but you can change it." p.49.