Quotes About Community

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants.

the best possible fortress is—not to be hated by the people

Concluiré afirmando tan sólo que el príncipe necesita tener al pueblo de su parte; de lo contrario, no tendrá remedio alguno en la adversidad. Nabis, príncipe de los espartanos, resistió el asedio de toda Grecia y de un victoriosísimo ejército romano, y defendió contra todos ellos su patria y su Estado; llegado el peligro le bastó con cuidarse de unos pocos, lo cual no le habría bastado de haber tenido al pueblo como enemigo.

si el que construye sobre el pueblo es un príncipe que sabe mandar y es valeroso, que no se amedrenta ante la adversidad, que no carece de otras aptitudes y que con su valor y sus instituciones mantiene despierto el ánimo de todos, nunca se encontrará engañado por el pueblo y se habrá procurado sólidos cimientos.

Concluderò solo che a uno principe è necessario avere el populo amico: altrimenti non ha, nelle avversità, remedio.

You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village. -African Proverb

As well as being the banners and ensigns of human groups, languages guard our memories too. Even when they are unwritten, languages are the most powerful tools we have to conserve our past knowledge, transmitting it, ever and anon, to the next generation. Any human language binds together a human community, by giving it a network of communication; but it also dramatizes it, providing the means to tell, and to remember, its stories.

over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under a dozen.

Languages make possible both the living of a common history, and also the telling of it.

My dad always said that when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just hard as what you're going through

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)

Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.

Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.

Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

because I learned that it's okay to accept some help every now and then .

because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .

I've been lucky, for no one should ever be forced to march through life alone.

You get to tour some of the historic homes and listen to ghost stories. This is what people do in small towns? We could either do that or go sit on my porch, chew some tobacco, and play banjos.

Even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good—and bad—to offer.

In the days that followed, it was as if all personal differences and political affiliations of any kind melted away. For a short period of time, we were all simply Americans.

Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.