Quotes About Community

He was after a sensational story and this, of course, could not be constructed out of mere truth; not out of officially released truth, anyway. It was essential that the news-reading public should feel, first, that the community was in danger and secondly that people—well-off people, "official" people—who ought to have known better, were to blame for it.

Hazel, watching, lent help here and there and encouraged the others.

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah," replied Bigwig.

Warren life doesn't make for secrecy.

In the great burrow, however, things happened differently. The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk for talking's sake, in the artificial manner that human beings—and sometimes even their dogs and cats—do. But this did not mean that they were not communicating; merely that they were not communicating by talking.

even a small warren. This one had

El-ahrairah, tu pueblo no puede gobernar el mundo porque yo no lo he dispuesto así. Todo el mundo será tu enemigo, Príncipe con Mil Enemigos, y te matarán si te alcanzan. Pero antes tendrán que atraparte, a ti, que cavas y escuchas y corres, príncipe con la alarma presta. Sé astuto e ingenioso y tu pueblo nunca será destruido.

How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.

I want to go back to the Flock, of course. I've barely begun with the new group!

Family is not necessarily made of blood, but of those you meet along the way.

Denn wenn man niemanden hat, den man ab und an aus der Stadt verjagen kann, wie soll man dann wissen, dass man selbst dorthin gehört?

We call everything a river here. We are that kind of people.

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done

One spring afternoon as a child in the strange town of Portland, I walked down to a different street corner, and saw a row of old houses, huddled together like seals on a rock.

Donner Party Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know

if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.

Often a single act of kindness sets a series of kind acts in motion.

Be the First One to Act Loving or Reach Out

Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature.

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents.

There is in every village a torch – the teacher: and an extinguisher – the clergyman. VICTOR HUGO

Christians seldom realize that much of the moral consideration for others which is apparently promoted by both the Old and New Testaments was originally intended to apply only to a narrowly defined in-group. 'Love

Often altruism within a group goes with selfishness between groups. This is a basis of trade unionism.