Quotes About Community

Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere.

The commercial edge of so-called progress has cut away a huge region of human tissue and webbing that held us in common with one another.

The poor have been doubly impoverished by the ugliness that surrounds them.

There is a desperate hunger for belonging. People feel isolated and cut off. Perhaps this is why a whole nation can assemble around the images of celebrities. They have no acquaintance with these celebrities personally. They look at them from a distance and project all their longings onto them. When something happens to a celebrity, they feel as if it is happening to themselves. There is an acute need for the reawakening of the sense of community.

We have fallen out of belonging.

National identity may be the most intractable of the Left's difficulties. Leftists of all kinds are extremely reluctant to accept that culture, language, and a shared history are vital supports for national community. To explain what holds the nation together, they offer two answers: liberal institutions and social-democratic transfer payments.

The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community.

Stop thinking about living in the north and in isolated communities as an unfortunate accident or a punishment or a failure; stop thinking about it in southern urban terms. Start thinking about it as a purpose in and of itself, a necessary and happy purpose covering two-thirds of Canada, with its own reality.

And so the indigenous languages of this place do belong to the people through whom they emerged. But they also carry within them an understanding of where we are and what is required of us all. Each time one of these languages disappears, even if you have never heard it, a great steel door closes forever on an understanding of this place. The

The core of this ideology is the marginalization of the public good in favour of Hobbesian self-interest: fear

Love you Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew a kid with green skin would just be too much.

There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew that kid with green skin would just be too much.

There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew that a kid with green skin would just be too much.

Some of the locals have rendered assistance, Weaver said. I'd make a redneck joke but I are one.

we shall be led as much to the street and the cottage as to the temple and the tower; and shall be more interested in buildings raised by feeling

I could live here," Del said. "No, you couldn't. You'd turn into a coot and hang out at the general store, with your fly down," Lucas said. "You'd be known for goosing middle-aged women. You'd be the town embarrassment.

You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We're all trapped on this earth together.

There was an old joke about a small town: a real small town meant that you didn't have to use the turn signals on your car, because anybody behind you already knew where you were going…

Mount Pleasant was an older town, where no two houses, standing side by side, seemed to come out of the same architectural style, with nineteenth-century Victorians up against pastel-colored postwar ramblers. Most of the houses had traditional flower gardens with marigolds and zinnias, and some with head-high sunflowers.

Cops and schoolteachers," Sloan said with satisfaction. "A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.

Cox knew the guys she was living with were criminals, but really it was more like the redistribution of wealth from Beverly Hills to Long Beach, almost like being a Democrat, so it was hard to see too much wrong with it. And nobody ever died.

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either lived in, or recently had lived