Quotes About Community

Earth is not a private club; it is a universal club. Being born allows you to receive a membership card; you don't have to do anything else for it. And it is the most beautiful club that you will ever find. Once you have realized that you are a member, don't you want to keep it clean and comfortable for fellow members to use?" I know I do.

In a fundamental sense, Earth and the community of human beings comprise the most basic environment in which we, as humanity, share as we try to nurture the seed of the soul. Therefore, healing, in its most fundamental and largest sense, is healing of the Earth and humanity.

Olvidamos que cuando de dineros se trata los barceloneses son capaces de enfrentarse al mismo diablo.

puente romano, mezclado entre la gente con un gran capazo de esparto en sus manos, tras una talanquera construida por el cabildo para obligar a los toros a que girasen y continuasen su carrera por la ribera del río, en cuyo margen se amontonaban los vecinos que, en caso de apuro, sólo podrían lanzarse al agua.

Tomamos lo que nos conviene: lo que el Creador ha puesto en este mundo no es propiedad de nadie, los frutos de la tierra pertenecen a todos los hombres y, si no nos gusta un lugar, nos marchamos a otro.

To follow Jesus is to be a wholemaker, essentially to love the world into new being and life.

XXIV. Wurzeln zu schlagen ist nicht immer ein probates Mittel gegen Einsamkeit.

How could anyone mistake Mom for white? Mom was a proud black woman, the proudest I knew. She hated us having to take welfare food, hated accepting anything we needed but did not earn. We had a picture of Marcus Garvey on the living-room wall, talking about going back to Africa, talking about the power of blackness and the strength of the Negro heart. I couldn't imagine looking at Mom and not seeing that.

We all chanted one of Garvey's famous phrases together: Up, up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will.

I have to learn to talk like the guys down the Hill. The "cats" down the Hill, that is. I have to be hip.

What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?

we cannot waste our time believing we can achieve an ideal self or community. all we can do is attempt to live well, in right relation... pursuing a social order that preserves and protects the integrity, resilience, and beauty of everyone...a commitment to generosity and mutuality.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.

Certain folks start playing Sindh Card despite having ravaged the life of the common Sindhi.

When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.

End your ego, think of nation

Onze tijd is niet gunstig voor het behoud van het individu.

TRADITIONS REASSURE US THAT WE BELONG TOGETHER

In a deserted village the jackass is king.

All things pass, but the poor remain. We are the people of the Apokalis. Tomorrow there will be more of us.

Poverty can make people self-centered

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

The individual artist is a medium for making representational and deeply meaningful symbols of the community's collective consciousness, whether they are symbols of the community's religion, love, hurt, power, hate, hope, dream, fables, foibles or on and on and on.