Quotes About Community

Era obvio que la empatía sólo se encontraba en la comunidad humana, en tanto que se podía hallar cierto grado de inteligencia en todas las especies, hasta en los arácnidos. Probablmente la facultad empática exigía un instinto de grupo sin cortapisas. A un organismo solitario, como una araña, de nada podía servirle.

Without a woman we'd discuss racing cars and horses and tell dirty jokes; no civilization.

You're a function of an impersonal cultural totality.

Anyone that's fighting the Police is on our side.

I speak to H. in a bar in downtown L.A. Over a schooner of beer he waits out the day

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie knots on her own. At first she felt that this gave an advantage--she needed no one else-- and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

You en't gyptian, Lyra. You might pass for gyptian with practice, but there's more to us than gyptian language. There's deeps in us and strong currents. We're water people all through, and you en't, you're a fire person. What you're most like is marsh fire, that's the place you have in the gyptian scheme. You got witch oil in your soul. Deceptive, that's what you are child.

Does the tree say to the sparrow "Get out, you don't belong here?" Does the tree say to the hungry man "This fruit is not for you?" Does the tree test the loyalty of the beasts before it allows them into the shade?

it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it meant that conversation at dinner had to be open and general rather than close and gossipy

Schools must take children to the theatre. This activity must be subsidised. Children should be able to join a youth theatre near where they live, and learn how to take part in every aspect of putting on a play. Places like that should be subsidised too. These things are not luxuries: they're essential to our wellbeing.

No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End.

Ma, you want to see physical violence done to the Jews of Newark, go to the office of the plastic surgeon where the girls get their noses fixed. That's where the Jewish blood flows in Essex County, that's where the blow is delivered—with a mallet! To their bones—and to their pride!

Waarom zou ik behoefte hebben aan een monument in mijn naam terwijl er op straat zo'n feestbanket rondloopt?

It's important that neighborhood life goes on as usual—otherwise, it's not only the stricken and their families who are victims, but Weequahic itself becomes a victim. At

It's a hard thing to be a jew... it's a harder thing to stay one.

There is also a very quiet but very sturdy and constant tragic undercurrent that concerns a people who are completely lost, who are lost within their families and lost within their nation, and lost within their time, and who only want some sort of direction or purpose or sense of community or love.

It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.

A problem shared is a problem doubled

Names are for friends, young lordling, not to be bandied about among strangers." "Strangers can become friends. In fact, all friends were at some time strangers.

Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong.

In a few years, fighting men began to think of themselves as a people apart, and loyalty to their birthplace gave way to loyalty to their leader.