Quotes About Community

She liked time at the edge of things-the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood-where all must pass but none quite belonged.

Belonging was not a seer's wyrd.

She could pretend it was enough to sit with a tablet weave between them, as women had for generations, and sometimes talk, sometimes fall into a half trance, mind floating free.

You should talk to people. Ordinary people about ordinary things. Like you used to with Cian.

Most importantly for me, historical accuracy also meant this could not be a story of only straight, white, nondisabled men. Crips, queers, women and other genders, and people of colour are an integral part of the history of Britain—we are embedded at every level of society, present during every change, and part of every problem and its solution. We are here now; we were there then. So we are in this story.

Mead was the key to good fellowship. A better gift, sometimes, than gold.

Find people. People you know are on your side. Not a priest. Not a slave. Kings die, even overkings. Especially overkings. So find people.

Hild watched them and the other not-yet-girdled girls-Cille and Leofe, who were already meant for each other, and half a dozen younger-and wondered when her mother might choose her gemæcce and who it might be.

Her sister and gemæcce already had the beginning of a kin web here in a foreign land. They wouldn't be all alone.

Christ wasn't their god, some muttered, not yet. But most didn't care. They were happy to eat.

Tell my mother: They are my people. They are my path. It's where I belong. She'll understand.

Not all were Anglisc, but they drank and shouted and boasted alike.

They both turned to look at me and I wondered how a person could become the outsider so fast.

You've made more of a life here in three weeks than you've done in five years in Atlanta. I only wonder that you've managed to hide from the obvious for so long. This place is ideal for a Norwegian who isn't really Norwegian anymore. It positively reeks of Scandanavia, all clean and shiny and Americanized full of rules that people obey with a smile when it pleases them and break with a smile when it doesn't. Ideal for you.

Here I know nobody; nobody knew me.

It was like the village all over again; she had won, but still must leave. She could not bear it.

Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others.

Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.

De menselijke warmte in een samenleving wordt minder naar de mate waarin haar wetgeving volmaakter wordt.

With the appearance of "rational" relations among individuals the process of a society's decay begins.

El psicólogo habita los suburbios del alma, como el sociólogo la periferia de la sociedad.

If liberty is to last, it should be the goal of social organization and not the starting point.

Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism.