Quotes About Community

Damien maintains, half-seriously, that followers of the footage comprise the first true freemasonry of the new century.

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.

We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.

Uno tiene miedo porque la gente siempre tiene miedo.

I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids.

Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it!

I got the conch! --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy

Quizá haya una bestia… quizá solo estemos nosotros

Listen all of you. Me and my hunters, we're living along the beach by a flat rock. We hunt and feast and have fun. If you want to join my tribe come and see us. Perhaps I'll let you join. Perhaps not.

Talvez", disse ele, hesitante, "talvez exista um monstro".[...] "Não sei", Seu coração batia forte e quase o sufocava. "Mas..." [...] "Eu queria dizer que... pode ser só a gente.

Le assemblee. Andiamo pazzi per le assemblee, vero? Una al giorno. Anche due volte al giorno. Stiamo lì a parlare. Scommetto che se suonassi la conchiglia in quest'istante, eccome se verrebbero, e di corsa. E allora, sapete, ce ne staremmo lì tutti compiti, e qualcuno proporrebbe di costruire un jet, o un sottomarino, o una televisione. Ad assemblea finita, lavorerebbero per cinque minuti e poi se ne andrebbero a zonzo, o a caccia.»

We don't want you,' said Jack, flatly. 'Three's enough.' Piggy's glasses flashed. 'I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was.

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide.

The laborer likewise gains by carrying on his labor in a strong, highly civilized, and well-governed State far more than he could gain with equal industry on the frontier or in the midst of anarchy. He

Love your neighbor as yourself" cannot mean love your neighbor as if your neighbor were you. Only

The challenge of Jesus is the political dilemma of how to be faithful to a strange community, which is shaped by a story of how God is with us. In this chapter we will challenge the assumption, so prevalent at least since Constantine, that the church is judged politically by how well or ill the church's presence in the world works to the advantage of the world.

Scenes An old house in a run-down neighborhood of a Midwestern city.

Government has important work to do, but in the task of helping society remain intact, much work takes place in the families, neighborhoods, churches, temples, schools, and voluntary groups that make communities good, healthy places to live.

Christians in North America and Europe have always looked forward to celebrating Christmas.

Government has important work to do, but in the task of helping society remain intact, much work takes place in the families, neighborhoods, churches, temples, schools, and voluntary groups that make communities good, healthy places to live. Individual

It matters because the emerging civic structures and spatial arrangements of the digital era will profoundly affect our access to economic opportunities and public services, the character and content of public discourse

A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

A social organism of any sort whatever, large or small, is what it is because each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other members will simultaneously do theirs. Wherever a desired result is achieved by the co-operation of many independent persons, its existence as a fact is a pure consequence of the precursive faith in one another of those immediately concerned.