Quotes About Community

Benefit performances, bad paintings and statues, philanthropic societies, Gypsies, schools, subscription dinners, carousing, the Masons, churches, books—no one and nothing met with refusal,

Moscow was burned by its citizens -- that is true; not, however by the citizens who remained, but by those that went away.

They're also people. Right, lads?

?nsano?lunun al??amayaca?? ko?ul yoktur, hele de çevresindeki herkesin ayn? ko?ullarda ya?ad???n? görüyorsa.

No hay situación a la que el hombre no se acostumbre, especialmente si todos los que le rodean la soportan como él.

There is only one way to improve society, which is for all of us to improve ourselves. For this to happen, you need do only one thing: improve your inner self.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that every one around him lives in the same way.

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,

No estamos en este mundo para comer a horas fijas, para dormir con regularidad, para vivir cien o más años. Todo esto es vano y es necio. Sólo una cosa cuenta: tener una vida útil; perfilar el alma; estar pendiente de ella, instante por instante; vigilar sus debilidades y exaltar sus impulsos; servir a los demás derramar a nuestro alrededor la dicha y la ternura; ofrecer el brazo al prójimo, para elevarnos todos, ayudándonos los unos a los otros

On A. F. Pugh's plantation, an enterprising former slave accumulated a cartload of articles from several neighboring plantations and bartered them with other blacks in the vicinity; the overseer was powerless to stop this apparently flourishing business based on loot.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

Enrollment is not about getting somebody to do something that you want them to do. It's about offering them the chance to do something they might want to do (in this case, becoming part of your effort).

moving into bigger houses in nicer neighborhoods. The outcome

The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.

We made a little garden in the middle of L.A. so our hearts they wouldn't harden & our spirits they could play

The cripple here that you clothe and feed Is neither starved nor cold; He does not ask for your company, Not at the centre, the centre of the world.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.

I AM CONVINCED I am convinced That if all mankind Could only gather together In one circle Arms on each other's shoulders And dance, laugh and cry together Then much of the tension and burden of life Would fall away In the knowledge that We are all children Needing and wanting Each other's Comfort and Understanding We are all children Searching for love

The means of many out way the means of the few or one.

Plus on partage, plus on possède. Voilà le miracle.

The fundamental goal of education, writes Dewey, "is the development of a spirit of social co-operation and community life...." The goal is to foster the child's "social capacity"—by, among other things, "saturating him with the spirit of service...."21

With all else that's been taken from us, we ask that you leave us our name, our self-respect, our sense of belonging to the great human family of which we are all part.