Quotes About Community

The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

cats make good neighbors.

Voják pÃ…â"¢ijímá osobní odpovÄ›dnost za bezpe?nost obce, ke které pÃ…â"¢ináleží, a v pÃ…â"¢ípadÄ› nutnosti ji brání svým životem. Civilista to nedÄ›lá.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part…and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

v naÅ¡em systému je každý voli? a úÃ…â"¢edník ?lovÄ›k, který prokázal dobrovolnou a t?žkou službou, že klade dobro skupiny nad osobní výhody.

Decentralization, dear

no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves.

Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color—by making point of how they don't care.

It's not me, it's us. If anything happens to us, I want it to be the same thing. All right, he said seriously. From now on, we stick together. I'll handcuff us together, if you'd rather. You won't need to. I'm going to hang on.

A social field might be considered a type of energy-field that is highly variable.

People think that only the banks can create money. That's a hallucination. Aleister Crowley tells in his autobiography of a part of Mexico during the Revolution where there was no money available, so the people in the town just wrote on pieces of paper, "I owe you five pesos," or whatever. And they were using these pieces of paper while the town went right along and got more prosperous because they weren't paying interest every time they created money.

Back down to the ghetto again," I said. "Good for you," Hawk said. "Give you a chance to be a minority." "I like you," I said. "I am a minority.

There were circles where people knew me better. Of course, they weren't circles anyone wanted to move in.

Mentre ci allontanavamo sull'automobile ho ricordato con infinita gratitudine le gentilezze ricevute in quelle brutte casette, e fra la comunità inglese in generale. Gentilezze del genere sono facili da dimenticare e impossibili da ricambiare: bisogna essere ricchi per offrire in Inghilterra lo stesso grado di ospitalità che equivale a due lenzuola pulite e a un bagno dopo un viaggio in Persia.

Tribes, I says. They're a powerful curse laid on you when you get born. They ruin you, but you can't get away from them. They're a nightmare a body's got to live with in the day time.

I enjoyed living here. Nobody gets drunk and nobody gets battered.

In L.A., next to riots and earthquakes, fires are our largest spectator sport.

Ted Kemp lived in a residential development six blocks west of the highway. The homes were small, set close, and identical, as if the developer's plan had been to cap the land with beige stucco, clay tile, and anonymity

An older woman wearing breeches and riding boots pushed a stroller out of a driveway and into the street. I stopped to let her cross. She smiled, thanking me. I smiled, saying take your time. A tiny hand reached from the stroller and waved at the sky.

Character assassination is one of the greatest pastimes of the village righteous and

We asked the people at the flower shop if they had seen anything, but they hadn't. We asked every shopkeeper in the strip mall and most of the employees, but they all said no. I hoped they had seen something to indicate that Karen was safe, but deep down, where your blood runs cold, I knew they hadn't.

Geography does not determine individual character, but it does matter.

People need to discover their ethnic roots as an anchor in the face of a more cosmopolitan world.