Quotes About Community

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.

This was a people's war. All the people had a stake in it. All the people had an obligation to put their hearts and wealth and blood into it. All would find their futures indelibly shaped by it.

Rightly understood, Christian theology has a pastoral dimension to its task. The agenda to be addressed by a well-formed theology is a broad one, but it certainly includes the deepest hopes and fears that arise out of the day-to-day concerns of the community of faith.

I walk back streetsadmiring the housesof the very poor.

the tenets of socialism: Own nothing individually. And then no one can take anything away from you.

When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever.

Gyan Shala (Hindi for "a school for knowledge or wisdom") offers the poor an extremely cheap and effective private school option by renting single classrooms in slums and employing local women from the informal sector as teachers.

You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

The Company's ever-growing Indian empire could not have been achieved without the political and economic support of regional power groups and local communities. The

Zafar always put huge emphasis on his role as a protector of the Hindus and the moderator of Muslim demands. He never forgot the central importance of preserving the bond between his Hindu and Muslim subjects, which he always recognised was the central stitching that held his capital city together.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Character is a superstition, a wretched fetish. Once a year wouldn't be too often to seize upon sinners whose blameless life has placed them above suspicion, and turn them inside out before the community, so as to show people how the smoke of the Pit had been quietly blackening their interior.

in Altruria every one works with his hands, so that the hard work shall not all fall to any one class; and this manual labor of each is sufficient to keep the body in health, as well as to earn a living. After the three, hours' work, which constitutes a day's work with us, is done, the young people have all sorts of games and sports, and they carry them as late into life as the temperament of each demands.

points to the church at Antioch as a kind of ideal local church, in part because every social group is represented. That church was the only place Herod's brother (an aristocrat) and a slave (considered very low) could have been drawn together. Antioch was also a strategic church because its members were all "tellers

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

Then all meaning was in the group . . . today . . . all is in the individual.

I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.