Quotes About Community

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens

Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral.

I have always felt lonely in the world out there. That is why I escaped into filmmaking even though the feeling of community is an illusion.

What matters most of all in life is being able to make that contact with another human. Otherwise you are dead, like so many people today are dead… But if you can take that first step toward communication, toward understanding, toward love, then no matter how difficult the future may be – and have no illusions, even with all the love in the world, living can be hellishly difficult – then you are saved. This is all that really matters, isn't it?

Alexander Ekdahl, is eleven years old, and lives in the small Swedish city of Uppsala. He lives in a large townhouse, divided into four splendid apartments, with his sister, Fanny, his parents, his two uncles and aunts, his cousin, his grandmother, and a number of servants.

Vårt umgänge med andra människor består huvudsakligen i att vi diskuterar och värderar vår nästas karaktär och beteende. Detta har medfört att jag frivilligt avstått från praktiskt taget all så kallad samvaro

HELENA. Well. Now we can finally eat. Everybody marches into the dining room singing the traditional song 'Helan Går'.

Für mich hat jeder Mensch das Recht, sich zu verändern, und wenn jemand dabei ein wertvolles Mitglied einer Gesellschaft wird, dann soll er auch die damit verbundenen Chancen bekommen, sofern er sich klar von Vergehen distanziert und dafür gezahlt oder gebüßt hat. Ich habe jetzt acht harte Jahre hinter mir, mit allem, was man sich vorstellen kann, mit Bombendrohungen und Gerichtsverhandlungen, und denke schon, dass ich inzwischen einen Beitrag für diese Gesellschaft leiste.

Well, during the 1930s, a lot of work was done on what was called 'mob consciousness', where anger or hysteria seems to get communicated by means other than reason or logic. This was suggestive of a group-mind kind of thing—somewhat linked together by a kind of communal telepathy.

Our problem is that we think we are isolated and immune from the interlinked ebbs and flows, when in fact our lives are the stuff of these currents and eddies. Our

social connections are often as important as medical treatment in preventing physical, mental, and functional decline.

Students are not a flotilla of boats trying to reach the teacher who is finished and waiting on the shore. The teacher is also one of the boats

Sometimes the least friendly people are the ones in greatest need of a friend.

You know why they call it the Garden State, don't you? It's like the Garden of Eden-- everyone is from there originally, but no one you meet actually lives there anymore.

These—the shared, simple acts of everyday life—are the realities on which international understanding can be built.

May the roof above us never fall in And may we good companions beneath it never fall out.

Laughter is brightest, in the place here the food is.

Laughter is brightest where food is best.

Better be quarreling than lonesome.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi

The city isn't good and the city isn't happy and the city is sick," he says--"but you are good and I thank you for that.

Herr Kulmbach had been saying the Führer had united the whole German nation. Which is true enough, it's just that the people making up the whole German nation don't get on with each other. But that doesn't make any difference to political unity, I suppose.