Quotes About Community

At home, we had lots of streets too, but they were all familiar with each other. Here, there are so many more streets that they can't possibly all know each other. It's a fabulous city.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

The immediate future is not in the hands of our first Negro President. It is in our hands, for better or for worse.

For the middle majority of us all, knowledge of Negroes firsthand is probably limited—limited to the colored cleaning woman, who comes twice a week, limited to the colored baseball player who saves or loses a home game, limited to the garage mechanic, or dime-store clerk, or blues singer seen and heard on a Saturday night. To this white majority, the black man is as unknown as once was the heart of the Dark Continent of Africa.

found a suitable site for their first permanent community in a vicinity where the natives were relatively friendly. With great care, they laid out a town that they called Villa Rica de Vera Cruz - Rich Town of the True Cross - so named because the land was rich and because they had landed on the Holy Friday of the Cross.

Good friends are good for your health

Our imperfections are the bonds that hold us together. We might as well recognize them.

Any planet is "Earth" to those that live on it.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

Shuffling her manly feet, shaking her head, she listed off—at the top of her voice, for the whole street to hear—the names of women who were happy with their husbands.

ODESSA IS A NASTY PLACE. Everybody knows that.

I imagined myself in the Jewish Self-Defence League

To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

Los hombres construimos demasiados muros y no suficientes puentes.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

I just came back from a community that holds the secret to human survival. It's a place where women run the show, have sex to say hello, and play rules the day.

For many Extraverts, "hell at a party" is "not being able to get in." Many introverts see it as "being there.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Civic virtue is not best justified in terms of fair play in a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage, because citizenship is not a strictly reciprocal relationship in which people receive benefits in proportion to their contributions, but a joint relationship that realises the common good of freedom and self-government.