Quotes About Community

In the Jewish communities of Europe, learned but poor Jews were much, much more highly respected than rich but unlearned ones.

There is no truth in the observation that after Robert Briscoe, a Jew, was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Irish began to see leprecohens.

The rabbi gets the fees, but it's the moyl who gets all the tips.

H]e (Socrates) thus implies that there is a parallelism between the city and the human individual or, more precisely, between the city and the soul of the human individual. This means that the parallelism between the city and the human individual is based upon a certain abstraction from the human body.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.

FEMA had a "Waffle House index" with which it determined how damaged a community was after a hurricane or tornado passed through it. The sooner the local Waffle House opens after a natural disaster, the quicker a local community would recover.

The Indians, they don't reveal nothin less they have a reason behind it. They believe a feller that shares, gives away some of his power.

Excitement wasn't the exact word he sought to describe the feelings of contentment, of satisfaction, of belonging to a community.

We saw many fearful world leaders, including those in the Chinese government, being helped to join the global community and to implement economic and social reforms.

This restless searching is what's behind the 'me–first' attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it's affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs." She

We're here on this planet not to build personal empires of control, but to evolve.

We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.

How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

How can we imagine what our lives would be without the illumination of the lives of others?

They were seated to one side, but to be with her was to be seen by everyone.

Seek the fellowship of other writers. A writers conference is a great way to meet other scribes. Email makes it easy to keep in touch. Consider forming a circle of such friends.

Having a Care Package relationship keeps a character from being completely selfish.

That is the whole point of the hero's journey. It is our identification with a figure who represents the values of the community, and by mythic exploits inspires the community to fight.

But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.

The proliferation of these self-conscious groups, some of which (such as seniors-only enclaves) virtually excluded others, added to a perception by the early 1970s that the United States was becoming both a claimant society and an ever more openly balkanized culture.

Kennedy, who had a mentally ill sister, also moved more actively than presidential predecessors to advance the cause of mental health. In 1963 Congress passed a Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Act, which funded local mental health centers that were to provide a range of out-patient services, including marital counseling, help for delinquents, and programs for unwed mothers and alcoholics.