Quotes About Community

I am here to change and make policy. The culture of LAPD versus the community and honest/good officers needs to and will change. I am here to correct and calibrate your morale compasses to true north.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

To refer everything to a "plurality of ethical commitments" means that we make no demands on anyone and acknowledge no one's right to make any demands on ourselves. The suspension of judgment logically condemns us to solitude. Unless we are prepared to make demands on one another, we can enjoy only the most rudimentary kind of common life.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to be with each other.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

Other runners try to disassociate from fatigue by blasting iPods or imagining the roar of the crowd in Olympic Stadium, but Scott had a simpler method: it's easy to get outside yourself when you're thinking about someone else.

Hébert had one firm rule: No Competing. Ever.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, [...] but to be _with_ each other.

When you live in a place like this—small, by itself—you're brought up to give help, not wait for it,

Urique. As a mining village whose best days

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It's your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with. The Tarahumara have no monetary system, so korima is how they do business: their economy is based on trading favors and the occasional cauldron of corn beer.

Running isn't about making people buy stuff. Running should be free, man.

If he could do it, Churchill was certain, so could his fellow misfits.

Because we have to answer to one another, and they did not.

Scott leaped and screamed, Jenn howled, Caballo hooted. The Tarahumara just ran.

Hazte amigo del dolor, y nunca te encontrarás solo. KEN CHLOUBER, Minero de Colorado y creador de Leadville Trail 100

Christopher McDougall

In the Tarahumara tongue, humans come in only two forms: there are Rarámuri, who run from trouble, and chabochis, who cause it.

había entendido que no corremos para ganarnos los unos a los otros, sino para estar junto a esos otros.

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It's your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with.

When your neighbor needs something, he needs you . The person he knows. Not the army. Not the police. You. And if you're not there, someday you'll have to look him in the face and explain.