Quotes About Community

so my wife took them up to a friend's on Kinnelon Lake." Not far enough,

Monsters are the patron saints of otherness.

En México los políticos han sido, salvo contadas excepciones, una vergüenza pública: su preocupación más importante es obtener beneficios para sí mismos en detrimento del bien común. Lucran con las desgracias de su comunidad en pos de fortalecer o imponer su imagen para propósitos electorales. La

hogar, país? Es posible que los seres humanos se den cuenta algún día de que todos estos valores son abstractos y que para vivir sólo necesitamos, en realidad, un lugar habitable".

décadas enteras de mala política, de inmensos desequilibrios económicos, de pésima educación no pueden más que llevar a una comunidad al suicidio o a la histeria.

En el Distrito Federal nadie extraña a nadie, todos desean la ausencia del otro, su desaparición repentina, se sueltan algunas lágrimas a causa de las pérdidas y después viene la felicidad.

One day, they will wake up to an extremely unbearable ocean of sameness. (re: changing San Francisco)

Sleeping in the park in a city is a form of civilization. First, you need a city with enough bustle and clatter to make a person yearn for a calm, green spot. Then you need a first-class park,

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… We are the State and we shall continue to be the State until we have created the institutions that form a real community.

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

W]ir dürfen ... ruhig sagen, daß allen großen Gestaltungen des Mitlebens der Menschen ein Wahn vorgeleuchtet hat, daß die Menschen immer nur durch Wahn aneinander gebunden waren, daß immer nur der Wahn die Individuen zu höheren Organisationsformen und Gesamtheiten aufgebaut hat.

Everyone says its a myth until one day something happens in the streets that brings it back to life.

As soon as a certain number of living beings are gathered together, whether they be animals or men, they place themselves instinctively under the authority of a chief.

Organize kitleler, toplumlar?n hayat?nda daima önemli bir rol oynam??t?r.

And if your neighborhood still suffers under the tyranny of Taco Bell and combo plates? Fear not -- Mexican food is coming to wow you, to save you from a bland life, as it did for your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents. Again. Like last time -- and the time before that.

We must consider the infinite varieties of Mexican food in the United States as part of the Mexican family—not a fraud, not a lesser sibling, but an equal.

Why is it that when you invite Mexicans to a party, they feel compelled to bring along thirty of their relatives? NOT ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE Dear Gabacho: Mexicans and parties—was there ever a coupling more spectacularly grotesque? We drink mucho, we eat mucho, we fight mucho, we love mucho, we mucho mucho.

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'

Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

It is a question of social realism, of becoming aware of an already given situation, to start from it, and to modify it.

Few of us have the power to heal broken legs, but we all have the power to forgive our neighbor. Yet how often do we do so?