Quotes About Community

In the end, everybody gay in Albany knows everybody gay in Albany. Eventually you always end up in the bed you started out in. I mean, this is the Hudson Valley, Newell, not West Hollywood. You can do it.

For example, in 2009 the British Government published, online, 700,000 individual documents that related to the expenses of British MPs. In response, the Guardian newspaper built an online platform to host these documents, and asked readers collectively to sift through them, a task too large for one person alone, and flag those that might be of interest, adding analysis if need be. A community of over 20,000 individuals engaged in what was, in effect, a public audit.

At WikiHouse an open community of designers worked together, online, to draw up designs for a house capable of being printed and assembled with no training, and for less than £50,000 (an early version, WikiHouse 4.0, was built in London during September 2014, and assembled in eight days by eight volunteers).

Three persons is the necessary minimum for unselfish love betweenpersons of some kind.

Asian Americans, like Native Americans, are not evenly distributed across the United States. To lump these people together ignores the sharp differences between them. Any examination of Asian Americans quickly reveals their diversity, which will be apparent as we focus on individual Asian American groups, beginning with Asian Indians.

Food historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto proposed that cooking created mealtimes and thereby organized people into a community. For culinary historian Michael Symons, cooking promoted cooperation through sharing, because the cook always distributes food. Cooking, he wrote, is "the starting-place of trades.

Gathering can be just as critical as hunting because men sometimes return with nothing, in which case the family must rely entirely on gathered foods.

That open country is so huge you can feel lost and abandoned in it or you can work to feel a part of it, like ya belong to it and it belongs to you. Like a part of you is rock and stone and stream and all the open sky. Ya get past lonesome then...them creatures is all my family and i'm family to them as well.

I saw kids die of tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia and broken hearts at St. Jerome's.

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Not infrequently, parents fail to help children grasp their responsibility for a community. Often we as parents don't convey to our children that they have obligations to small communities like a sports team or a school choir or a dance troupe. How many of us ever simply mention to our children that a school is not just a place to learn but a community, or that a neighborhood is a community that carries obligations?

Rather than focusing narrowly on the dangers of peer pressure, adults should ask themselves whether they are helping children find causes and commitments that are larger than the self that are worth sacrificing for.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

if America means anything at all, it means the sufficiency of the common, the insufficiency of the uncommon.

Collectivizing risk and considering the community as a whole rather than the individual was a form of "communism," but the practice paradoxically allowed people to maintain their belief in individualism. Probability could compensate for the limits of human knowledge.

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. … But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

Christians as a segment of the general population are ten times more likely to contribute money and resources to the aid of another individual than a non-Christian

If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.

The early church worked secretly and illegally, and it triumphed. We must learn again to work in the same manner. Until the Communist era, I never understood why so many persons in the New Testament are called by nicknames...We continue to use secret names in our work in captive nations.

I grandi libri, come i grandi amici, devono essere condivisi.

The sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room. A woman's only son came home insane, confronting her with God only knew what agonies of grief and guilt, and still she busied herself with the doings of the zoning board, with little chirrups of neighborly good cheer and cardboard boxes full of garden plants.

If you lived like a proletarian long enough, among proletarians, weren't you almost certain to become a proletarian too?