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Quotes About Community

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
~ Unknown
The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
The householder by digging tanks, by planting trees on the roadsides, by establishing rest-houses for men and animals, by making roads and building bridges, goes towards the same goal as the greatest Yogi.
~ Vivekananda
lazy and content to lead an idle life, he is immoral, because upon him depend hundreds. If he gets riches, hundreds of others will be thereby supported.
~ Vivekananda
We've never had kings in Wadingburn, and I don't intend for us to start now.
~ Unknown
Johnson odiaba y temía la vida en un pueblo. Las calles cerradas y silenciosas lo sumían en la desesperación. En un pueblo, su presencia no encontraba reflejo. La soledad se volvía insoportable. La ciudad tenía sentido porque hacía soportable la soledad.
~ Vivian Gornick
Every night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of lighted windows rising to the sky, crowding round me, and feel myself embraced by the anonymous in gathering of city dwellers. This swarm of human hives, also hanging anchored in space, is the New York design offering generic connection. The pleasure it gives soothes beyond all explanation.
~ Vivian Gornick
web being constructed by the children in their constant exchange of ideas the moment I stopped talking and they resumed playing.
~ Unknown
it is most useful to think about these questions not in terms of the individual rights of transsexuals, but in terms of how these issues link with those of other marginalized populations, or with the functioning of the state in general.
~ Unknown
Genuine mathematicians do not gang up, but the weak need gangs in order to survive.
~ Unknown
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
~ Unknown
Complete self-government for the province [gubernia and region], district and community through bureaucrats elected by universal suffrage; the abolition of all local and provincial authorities appointed by the state.
~ Unknown
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
~ Vladimir Lenin
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
~ Vladimir Putin
Put up with people around,they serve as your background.
~ Unknown
The nasty weatherpulls people together.
~ Unknown
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
~ Voltaire
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
~ Voltaire
Every Anarchist, as an Anarchist, would be perfectly willing to surrender his own scheme directly, if he saw that another worked better. For
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Forget it, Jake. It's Shantytown.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
So, what about new friends? You could make new friends," Maggie Rose suggested. Bryan snorted. "Like that's easy. By the time you're in fifth grade, all the kids have best friends already. Nobody needs a new one." He got up. "Come on, Brewster.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
My life was going to be different from my mother's. She belonged to one person, to Walt. But I did not. I wasn't Mona's dog, or Patsy's, or Tyler's, or Eddie's. I belonged to all my friends. I was everyone's dog. I was surrounded by people who loved me, just like Grandad was. Suddenly, I understood that I was the luckiest dog in the world.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
~ W. Clement Stone
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
~ W. Clement Stone