Quotes About Community

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.

Let them, let them scratch where it itches, it's a real human itch to gossip, to go over someone's bones until they're picked clean. They can't live without it. And you just keep quiet, do your work, and don't taunt them--they'll stop sooner. And then it'll be someone else's turn, and you'll be with the others again. Is this the first time? The very thing they blame you for, they'll praise you for later. People…

It's a fact that even death looks good in company.

People shy away from messed-up people. They don't want to be burdened.

I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Visuomenei, jei j? sudaryt? pilnavert?s, m?stan?ios b?tyb?s, gerai suprantan?ios viena kit? ir nekonkuruojan?ios taip beprasmiškai, nereik?t? nei vyriausyb?s, nei ?statym?, nei vadov?.

A true community consists of individuals -- not mere species members, not couples -- respecting each others individuality and privacy, at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally -- free spirits in free relation to each other -- and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends.

It's important to help both friends and strangers when times are hard.

A community like this is held together not by blood ties, but by laws under which all citizens are equal. The law corrects the flaws and the imperfections of individuals, limits conflict and competition, rewards the will to do and to achieve, encourages the strong, supports the weak. In a society like this the shame lies not in being humble and poor, but rather in doing nothing to improve one's condition.

Cada padre es padre de todos los hijos; cada hijo es hijo de todos los padres.

We live in an age of globalisation, but also one of identity politics. It is as if our world is expanding and contracting at the same time.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

When the Lord's sheep are a dirty grey, all black sheep are more comfortable.

I believe in the Church and in loyalty to a local church. I am not in favour of that view of the invisible church that makes one invisible at church on Sunday morning.

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

The only way to build hope is through the Earth.

Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.

Centralized economic systems also erode the democratic base of politics. In a democracy, the economic agenda is the political agenda.

food security for rural communities. When the household and community are food-secure, the girl child is food-secure. When the household and community are food-insecure, it is the girl child who, because of gender discrimination, pays the highest price in terms of malnutrition. When access to food diminishes, the girl child's share is last and least. The politics of food is gendered at multiple levels.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?

Impara a conoscere chi ti sta vicino, se no camminerai sempre nel deserto