Quotes About Community

Statesmen of this type know what to do and when to do it, if they are to achieve their ends, which themselves are usually not born within some private world of inner thought, or introverted feeling, but are the crystallisation, the raising to great intensity and clarity, of what a large number of their fellow citizens are thinking and feeling in some dim, inarticulate but nevertheless persistent fashion.

Many of the locals weren't too happy with Irish immigrants full stop, but they certainly weren't happy with a Catholic school, attached to a church, in the middle of these working-class council flats. They viewed that very much, I suppose, as people view a mosque today, as an alien agenda, and considered you an outsider for having anything to do with it.

Monument and Ignacio, Colorado, went further than banning all public gatherings. They banned customers from stores; the stores remained open, but customers shouted orders through doors, then waited outside for packages.

So the final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that those who occupy positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society. Society cannot function if it is every man for himself. By definition, civilization cannot survive that. Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best.

Based on studies of what U.S. cities did in 1918, modelers have concluded that "layering" several interventions—most of them different kinds of "social distancing"—would at least stretch out the length of an influenza outbreak in a local community

Based on studies of what U.S. cities did in 1918, modelers have concluded that "layering" several interventions—most of them different kinds of "social distancing"—would at least stretch out the length of an influenza outbreak in a local community, easing the strain on the health care system.

Other recommendations are generally simple and obvious: for example, keeping sick children home from school—which is standard behavior—and having sick adults stay home from work—which is not standard behavior

Wilson declared, "It isn't an army we must shape and train for war, it is a nation.

Simply delaying its arrival in a community or slowing its spread once there—just such minor successes—would have saved many, many thousands of lives.

Despite that effort, whoever held power, whether a city government or some private gathering of the locals, they generally failed to keep the community together. They failed because they lost trust. They lost trust because they lied. (San Francisco was a rare exception; its leaders told the truth, and the city responded heroically.) And they lied for the war effort, for the propaganda machine that Wilson had created.

Society cannot function if it is every man for himself. By definition, civilization cannot survive that.

Donohue's family operated a funeral home: "We had caskets stacked up outside the funeral home. We had to have guards kept on them because people were stealing the caskets. . . . You'd equate that to grave robbing." There were soon no caskets left to steal. Louise Apuchase remembered most vividly the lack of coffins: "A neighbor boy about seven or eight died and they used to just pick you up and wrap you up in a sheet and put you in a patrol wagon.

Clifford Adams recalled, "They stopped people from communicating, from going to churches, closed the schools, . . . closed all the saloons. . . . Everything was quiet.

It now seemed as if there had never been life before the epidemic. The disease informed every action of every person in the city.

Fear began to break down the community of the city. Trust broke down. Signs began to surface of not just edginess but anger, not just finger-pointing or protecting one's own interests but active selfishness in the face of general calamity. The hundreds of thousands sick in the city became a great weight dragging upon it. And the city began to implode in chaos and fear.

execute, is that those who occupy positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

Both the Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Club, which gave rise to several dozen companies that forged the personal computer industry—including Apple—emerged from the fertile ground that Raymond created.

Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, or WELL, a computer conferencing system that Brand launched in 1985.

To remember what bio-diversity is and why it is important, we must conserve nature close to where we live and work as well as develop distant reserves.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

Results: Create Victories Through Multiplication When you work together with your teammates, you can do remarkable things. If you work alone, you leave a lot of victories on the table.

When D's cabin caught fire, D was out of the country. Half the town-Christians and drinkers alike-came out to fight the fire and loot the cabin. There were individual piles of loot, and fights over the piles. That's my pile. The hell it is, it's mine.