Quotes About Community

No more than 25 percent of the guests at a university dinner party can come from the economics department without spoiling the conversation.

But while you're abroad lead respectable lives; Love your neighbors, and welcome--but don't love their wives!

It is striking how seldom Paul uses eschatological judgment as a threat to motivate obedience. More characteristically, he points to the sanctifying work of God's Spirit, already underway in the community, as a ground of reassurance and hope.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

The truly creative mind is hardly ever so much alone as when it is trying to be sociable. The

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.

I want you all to think not only of yourselves and your families but everybody else who is alive. We are all equal, and all of us need helping and there is nobody to help mankind except mankind.

As Davy said, so it happened. The ironworkers started to work in the pit for not much more than some of the boys. Some of them even started pulling the trams in place of the ponies. A lot of the older and better-paid men got discharged without being told why, although it was put out that they were too old and could not work as well as they ought. But that was nonsense, because Dai Griffiths, one of them, was one of the best in the Valley and known for it.

People on earth are never alone," he explained. "There's always someone as a guide for each individual.

Here we are, kiddies, sitting like a bug in a rug, snugly, surrounded by a battalion of bloodsuckers who wish no more than to sip freely of my bonded, 100 proof hemoglobin. Have a drink, men, this one's really on me.

Conformity is the enemy of friendship

And don't look for anything out of the law around here," she said. "The Cowgills and the Leapers is kin to the sheriff. No justice in these parts. It's every man for hisself." "But as the saying goes, if you can't get justice," Mrs. Dowdel remarked, "get even.

But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.

We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be -Archer

Royal[s] can't manage on their own.

Life is nothing but mutual infection.

The trees have vanished and the town forgets. But not the land.

But people aren't alone, and they never have been.

Art is not a mobocracy. It's a republic.

There are no individuals. There aren't even separate species. Everything in the forest is the forest.

Enlightenment is a shared enterprise. It needs some other voice saying, You are not wrong. . . .

Humankind is deeply ill. The species won't last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.

But it's the same basic problem: What keeps us from seeing the obvious? Douglas puts his hand to the brass bull's horn. And? What does? Mostly other people.