Quotes About Community

It's 2444. We're all someone.

graphics-rich personal workstations and the notion of human-computer symbiosis; time-sharing and the notion of computer-aided collaborative work; networks and the notion of an on-line community; on-line libraries and the notion of instant, universal access to knowledge; and computer languages and the notion of a new, digital medium of expression.

the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirming a certain set of beliefs or adopting a particular behavior pattern. These are a secondary result of the primary reality of a life engaged in an ever deepening union with God in love.

Great things are brought about and burdens are lightened through the efforts of many hands "anxiously engaged in a good cause.

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

To many political planners and policy-makers in the Western world, Africa remains an irritating appendage to the human community.

the medieval practice of proclaiming saints through the acclamation of the people.

You need the noise of your friends in space.

The way they both believed that as long as they told a lie long enough, to as many people as possible, that it should be believed because they said it. Community

There are two basic kinds of punishment. In this chapter, I have focused on one of them: peer punishment, the kind used by the Mafia, or in instances when people take the law into their own hands.

migration undermines cooperation.

What sinks of iniquity these little villages can be.

We were a country of sages. They were all over the place, sometimes clogging the streets and roadways.

London is often confused with England. The English also live in London but they are only one of the communities which inhabit a true world city.

E)very soul requires secret places for contemplation as well as open spaces for celebration.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

One of the best things about road-tripping with monks is that monks are used to repeating chants over and over and over, so they really don't mind songs like 'Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall' or 'The Song That Never Ends.

The hafts of the tools were stained black with th sweat of us all, our contributions, black and white alike.

We could sing to lift our spirits,' one of them suggested. Believe me, you want me to end the chapter now.

The newspaper concluded: "Now tradition takes over, masks are the rule, and the carnival begins.

It's easy to be kind when you are poor. I've met a lot of kind people in my travels, but the cost of their kindness is exclusion from the outside world. As soon as a road is built, the kindness vanishes.

I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.