Quotes About Community

There are two races on earth. Those who need others, who are distracted, occupied and refreshed by others, who are worried, exhausted and unnerved by solitude as by the ascension of a terrible glacier or the crossing of a desert; and those, on the other hand, who are wearied, bored, embarrassed, utterly fatigued by others, while isolation calms them, and the detachment and imaginative activity of their minds bathes them in peace.

Needless to say, genders cheer up the everyday life of ordinary mortals too.

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us.

Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed on societies all over the world from distress and other forms of migration. A basic income system in impoverished and low-income communities in developing countries would surely encourage more people to stay in and (re)build their communities.

As the Talmud says, Customs are more powerful than laws.

Gossip's not amusement, Uncle Zeke.' Arabella was grave. 'It's an essential part of social life.' 'Why?' 'It keeps up the moral values of a community by picking out the deviants and criticising their behaviour.

Tragedies don't digest well in a small town.

He ran like a mad thing into the night And the words in his mouth were stinking. By the time he had hurt his first white man He was no longer thinking. By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead. His neighbors gathered and kicked his corpse.

That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. The major Voice. The adult Voice forgoing Rolling River, forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge and other symptoms of an old despond. Warning, in music-words devout and large, that we are each other's harvest: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Big Bessie's feet hurt like nobody's business,but she stands—bigly—under the unruly scrutiny, stands in the wild weed.In the wild weedshe is a citizen.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

They walk down Westheimer, a long, long street that always smells of burnt rubber and carbon monoxide, occasionally interrupted by the aromas of foods from all over the world: Mexican, Japanese, Indian, Brazilian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Guatemalan, etc.

Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine international community. If we succeed in creating that community, however quarrelsome, discontented, and full of injustice it probably will be, then we shall effectively have abolished the ancient institution of warfare. Good riddance.

A legnagyobb szegénységi bizonyítvány mi vagyunk – mondja Adorján. – Szegénységi bizonyítvány err?l az országról. Hogy az értelmesek hiába találkoznak, nem tudnak mihez kezdeni önmagukkal és egymással.

esas consistentes mayorías desprovistas que pueden uniformarse en la palabra "pueblo", un concepto vacío pero de extraordinarias resonancias emotivas, justicieras, solidarias.

El nacionalismo cohesionó a México, le dio sentido de país y orgullo de comunidad, pero también le cerró los ojos, estimuló su provincianismo, lo llenó de mentiras. En el camino de la construcción nacionalista mexicana se han acumulado muchas mentiras constitutivas de nuestros orgullos nacionales: mentiras fundadoras.

the refugees leave a refuge, enter a refuge run to the windows, what they see makes them move on, they move, refuge means move, move moves on into madness, my book I say is on the move, we are moving each other

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

It takes an awful lot of people, working together at an awful lot of jobs, to keep a civilization running.

In a religious community, the village atheist keeps his doubts to himself.

is devoted to civilization or anything else outside himself, and that's the mark of the barbarian.

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.