Quotes About Community

In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.

el poder estructura la sociedad, contribuye a regir las relaciones y a organizar las interacciones entre las personas dentro de cada comunidad y entre las comunidades y naciones.

For all these differences, the basic insight remains: when a critical mass of people in society feel their expectations in life have been dashed, conditions soon build up to a crisis. And in today's world, those whose expectations have been dashed are able to reach out to one another and build communities of meaning in a way that had never been technologically possible before.

Para trabajar por la defensa nacional, llama a su pueblo a crear Círculos Bolivarianos en cada barrio, en cada organización. Ésta es su versión de los legendarios Comités de Defensa de la Revolución, los CDR, que instauró Fidel al principio de su largo gobierno:

La degradación excesiva del poder, que hace que todos los actores importantes puedan vetar las iniciativas de los demás pero ninguno de ellos pueda imponer su voluntad, es un peligro tan grave para el sistema político y la sociedad de un país, o para cualquier comunidad o incluso una familia, como para el sistema de naciones.

Power has a social function.

yo soy ustedes. Yo soy el pueblo.

power has a social function. Its role is not just to enforce domination or to create winners and losers: it also organizes communities, societies, marketplaces, and the world.

Die Tugend, deren die Gesellschaft bedarf, ist die Umgänglichkeit; zuviel Gesinnung kann durchaus tadelnswert sein; vollkommene Vernunft vermeidet alle extremen Einstellungen

The way of Friends is to think quietly and to listen. We ask the question, we consider how the answer is made by different people, we ask again, answer again, change our minds; we reach an understanding. The Meeting evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, not by the weight of the majority, but by the capacity of individual human beings to comprehend one another.

The Anglo-Irish occupied a strange position in 1920s Ireland, the time in which the book is set. A breed apart, poverty-stricken yet proud, they were struggling to keep their niche in a changing country.

Aroon is always on the outside looking in, always the unwanted hanger-on, the gooseberry.

Spreading rumours is our national past time

Buying kids booze was against the law but hell, it wasn't the worst thing he'd done. After that, it turned into a thing—they'd see him and wave, and they knew his name and let him be one of theirs, one of them. They cut a small place in the world for him to belong.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg's on their 'Share Your Breakfast' campaign, which provide breakfasts to kids in need.

These bruised people shored me up, and I wanted them near me, not because misery loved company but because the business of human striving felt common to us all. In this was the presence of God.

Et vivre en société c'est vivre en hétérosexualité.

The women address the young men in these terms, now you understand that we have been fighting as much for you as for ourselves.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

Oh, you have a kitchen! I'm gonna like this place very much.