Quotes About Community

That is the biggest paradox, I think, about the modern world. We are all connected to each other but we often feel shut out. The increasing overload and complexity of modern life can be isolating.

If the madness is collective and the illness is cultural it can be hard to diagnose, let alone treat.

We have never been at war with ourselves. We never place the desires of the individual over the requirements of the collective.

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilization has become a little safer.

Za ljudi, ko radi berejo, velja, da naj bi bili osamljeni, meni pa so knjige pomenile pot iz osamljenosti. ?e si takšne vrste, da preve? razmišljaš o stvareh, ni ni?esar samotnejšega, kakor ?e si obkrožen z množico ljudi na drugi valovni dolžini.

Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

For me, reading was never an antisocial activity. It was deeply social. It was the most profound kind of socializing there was. A deep connection to the imagination of another human being. A way to connect without the many filters society normally demands.

You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.

A quote I heard recently: "Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.

The town was a conveyor belt of despair.

Life is the people who love you. No one will ever choose to stay alive for an iPhone. It's the people we reach via the iPhone that matter.

if you look at the Domesday Book, the average size of an English community at that time was a hundred and fifty people. Except in Kent. Where it was a hundred people. I'm from Kent. We have anti-social DNA.

Places don't matter to people anymore. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have one foot in the great digital nowhere.

The library was a little shelter of civilisation.

quanto mais as pessoas estavam ligadas às redes sociais, mais solitária a sociedade se tornava.

the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

It is lonely, this world, without a friend.

She felt the strangeness of being connected to the world through someone else.

History isn't something you need to bring to life. History already is alive. We are history. History isn't politicians or kings and queens. History is everyone. It is everything.

Mrs Elm had short grey hair and a kind and mildly crinkled oval face sitting pale above her turtle-green polo neck. She was quite old. But she was also the person most on Nora's wavelength in the entire school, and even on days when it wasn't raining she would spend her afternoon break in the small library.

Foundation Other people matter. But there is no point becoming someone else in order to find friends. In order to find the people who like you, it is first necessary to be you.

communal kitchen in Longyearbyen

there are millions going through an equivalent experience at any one time.

How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?" The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.