Quotes About Community

To develop strong shoulders carry the responsibilities of the under privilege and MickeyMize your life.

I may be small, but I've got friends that make me ten feet tall.

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

I realised what I could offer the South African Police Force. It was only later when the Force became the Service that I realised the contribution that I could make to the community as well.

Serial killers generally present themselves as normal people to the rest of the community. They go to church, they take their children to school, visit restaurants and buy groceries just like everyone else. They are someone's son, someone's brother, someone's neighbour. I sometimes think of them as nice people who have this nasty habit of killing others.

Serial killers are usually such normal people that their communities often react with disbelief.

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

La obra humana es colectiva; nada que no sea colectivo es ni sólido ni durable...

Ni sabe el pueblo qué es fe ni acaso le importa mucho

Cada uno mira demasiado lo propio y olvida que hay cosas que son de todos y que hay que cuidar.

A vida no campo é assim: nos anos de abundância, quando chove muito e nas alturas certas, enchem-se os celeiros e as despensas de comida, todos ficam felizes e há festas nas aldeias a todo o tempo para celebrar as colheitas. Nos anos de seca, os prados fica secos, a fruta apodrece nas árvores, a caça foge, e as pessoas andam tristes e às vezes passam fome.

As ilhas são lugares de solidão e nunca isso é tão nítido como quando partem os que apenas vieram de passagem e ficam no cais, a despedir-se, os que vão permanecer. Na hora da despedida, é quase sempre mais triste ficar do que partir e, numa ilha, isso marca uma diferença fundamental, como se houvesse duas espécies de seres humanos: os que vivem na ilha e os que chegam e partem.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

When the lifestyle of a social group becomes obsolete, when work turns into a boring routine and community responsibilities lose their meaning, it is likely that leisure will become increasingly more important. And if a society becomes too dependent on entertainment, it is likely that there will be less psychic energy left to cope creatively with the technological and economic challenges that will inevitably arise.

There are natives of New Guinea who spend more time looking in the jungle for the colorful feathers they use for decoration in their ritual dances than they spend looking for food. And this is by no means a rare example: art, play, and ritual probably occupy more time and energy in most cultures than work.

La tarea consiste en aprender a disfrutar de la vida cotidiana sin disminuir las oportunidades de las demás personas para que disfruten con las suyas.

A community should be judged good not because it is technologically advanced, or swimming in material riches; it is good if it offers people a chance to enjoy as many aspects of their lives as possible, while allowing them to develop their potential in the pursuit of ever greater challenges.

civilization is built on the repression of individual desires