Quotes About Community

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

We can't all be the life of the party. Some of us are quieter than others. But we can all go around with a look and attitude that says we want to be friendly. We can stay active. The worst thing you can do is withdraw from the network of friendships and acquaintanceships at home and at work. If you aren't in the network, nobody is ever going to steer anything your way.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

Betrachtet einmal das Volk, das von ergebenen Patrioten geschützt wird. Die Patrioten fallen im blutigen Kampfe oder im Kampfe mit Hunger und Not; was fragt das Volk danach? Das Volk wird durch den Dünger ihrer Leichen ein "blühendes Volk"! Die Individuen sind "für die große Sache des Volkes" gestorben, und das Volk schickt ihnen einige Worte des Dankes nach und - hat den Profit davon. Das nenn' Ich Mir einen einträglichen Egoismus.

Who is this person that you call "All"?—It is "society"!—But is it corporeal, then?—We are its body!—You? Why, you are not a body yourselves;—you, sir, are corporeal to be sure, you too, and you, but you all together are only bodies, not a body. Accordingly the united society may indeed have bodies at its service, but no one body of its own. Like the "nation" of the politicians, it will turn out to be nothing but a "spirit," its body only semblance.

So the people--humanity or the family--have up to now, as it seems, played history: no egoistic interest was supposed to arise in these societies, but only universal, national, or popular interests, class interests, family interests, and "universal human interests".

That in East Prussia Frederick William I tolerated the Mennonites as indispensable to industry

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.

A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

Can it beI am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentucky,looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

marido? —Soy viuda. —Será de un fantasma encarnado, porque los otros días yo vi a Peyo caminando por la Plaza —interrumpió otra de las comadronas que esperaban en la oficina. —Para lo que sirve, mejor darlo por muerto —respondió la comadrona que entrevistaba. Rieron ambas.

Šta bi prvo savjetovao ?ovjeku kome želiš dobro? - Da se svojim mišljenjem ne izdvaja me?u ljudima s kojima živi. (...) Drugi moj savjet ?ovjeku kome želim dobro bio bi: ne govori uvijek ono što misliš.

Ljutita i za?u?ena, gomila ima svoj jezik, druk?iji od jezika kojim se služi svaki od ovih ljudi, li?i na zujanje p?ela, ili na režanje, gube se rije?i a ostaje skupni zvuk, gube se pojedina?na raspoloženja a ostaju zajedni?ka, opasna.

he offered a prayer that this stranger was soon on his way and out of his neighborhood.

What they consecrated, held in their own hands, and distributed was sacred because of the people who received it.

celebrate such meals as this with prisoners and others and not for them.

The early Christians' name for the Church was, "The Gathering.

Only tiny kindnesses, but the ones that counted, the million little mercies we take for granted, the mundane gestures that keep us, tentatively, together.