Quotes About Community

Chère Marika, Le vieux Volks n'est pas là, et moi non plus, mais vous pouvez entrer quand même. Ça me réjouirait le coeur de savoir que vous êtes entrée, que vous avez bu du café ou du chocolat et mangé des biscuits, assise à ma place ou encore debout en regardant par la fenêtre. Simplement de savoir que vous êtes venue, je serais heureux. Même sans vous voir. A bientôt. Votre voisin, Jim

La première question politique est de savoir quels objets et quels sujets sont concernés par ces institutions et ces lois, quelles formes de relations définissent proprement une communauté politique, quels objets ces relations concernent, quels sujets sont aptes à désigner ces objets et à en discuter. La politique est l'activité qui reconfigure les cadres sensibles au sein desquels se définissent des objets communs

Pourquoi donne-t-on? Pour se relier, pour rompre la solitude et faire partie de la chaîne à nouveau, pour se brancher sur la vie, pour faire circuler les choses dans un système vivant, pour sentir qu'on fait partie de quelque chose de plus vaste et notamment de l'humanité chaque fois on fait un don à un inconnu.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

In response to a tactless question he once said to me, 'What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn't resist.

Here, in a few words, you've said all you need to say. People stand by each other, but they don't talk. It's remarkable. I've investigated the extraordinary history of these walls. I think I'm the only person who knows that it's the stones, the stones alone that set the tone here.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

BLM: we all human and in life we need each other at some point, treat each others like brothers and sisters you never had.

Our lives become beautiful not because of what we do, our lives becomes beautiful simply because we have included everybody around us as a part of our dream of well being.

The modern societies are encouraging exclusiveness. Exclusiveness will naturally lead to depression. People are depressed like never before on this planet.

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

The life of faith is a struggle enough in a broken world without us complicating it for other believers.

Johnson Middle School,

Nobody lived around here. It was one of those American neighborhoods in which upper middle-income workers were warehoused, but in which very little real, actual living was done.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born.

I look at this place (Antigua), I look at these people (Antiguans), and I cannot tell whether I was brought up by, and so come from, children, eternal innocents, or artists who have not yet found eminence in a world too stupid to understand, or lunatics who have made their own lunatic asylum, or an exquisite combination of all three.

Considering that no man is an Island, and no man is above the Law. Then, breaking the law is a penalty all citizen should endure."

We the people share Planet Earth together, as one people, one nation, and one destiny. So, why do we say we are so different from each other? When indeed, we are not. Yes, we have our own personal preferences, beliefs, and values. But we also have many similarities in common. And the biggest one is living on Planet Earth. And sharing the lands together, as one human race among many other humans."

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

Gauge thy life wisely but gauge thy neighbors' wiser!

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

The more we discover our needs, the more we become aware that we cannot resolve them on our own. Nor can others, people like us. A sense of powerlessness accompanies every serious experience in our lives.