Quotes About Community

the body is a site of social encounter, not a vessel for American hyperindividualism.

But if your immune system isn't great, and fails to monitor it, P. gingivalis starts to produce biofilm-signaling molecules, and neighboring organisms are like, wait, we can join a biofilm?" (Biofilms are slimy structures inside of which bacteria live in an organized community and communicate with one another; the spongy molecular matrix that contains them helps protect them from the immune system's attacks.) And soon you've got a mouth full of cavities.

One does not have to be Christian to see that [John] Donne was right. To be ill is to recognize this interconnectedness -- to understand how much we are "a part of the main." But to be ill in America today is to be brought up against the pathology of a culture that denies this fact. In the worst moments of my illness, I was alone because of the ways that we have allowed ourselves to believe that the self, rather than the community, must do all the healing.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. . . . Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Everybody took me under their wing and didn't make fun of me for not knowing anything about theater.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants!

Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods.

Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

Fakir bir çocu?un ayakkab?s?ndaki büyük bir delik, onun içinde ya?ad??? toplumu mahkûm etmek için en basit kan?tt?r.

Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!

Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!

Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

Not every man has shoes, so reduce the number of shoes at your home till every man has at least one!

Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!

On the way to truth, walk with the crowds or walk all alone; but walk always and walk under every condition!

On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!

One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.