Quotes About Community

That was how humans knew each other. Tiny fractions of their lives intersected or were known in any way to anybody else. It was much like living alone in the universe. Which was strange. A justification for living with friends, for marrying, for sharing rooms and lives as much as possible. Not that this made people truly intimate; but it reduced the sensation of solitude.

To the locals, he realized, the Orkneys were the center of the world.

He wanted to settle into a full human life, to pick a place and stay there, to learn it completely, in all its seasons, to grow his food, make his house and his tools, become part of a community of friends.

there were extroverts who were excitable, and extroverts who were on an even keel; there were introverts who were quite emotional, and those who were not. He could immediately think of examples among the colonists of all four of the types.

And it came to her that it was precisely in the moments of greatest need when people could do the least for each other.

That's all civilization is, a giant mill grinding out gossip.

People's faces, staring in concert; this ran the world.

Early that afternoon they came to a small town called Bradbury, which under its Nicosia-class tent looked like something out of Illinois: treelined blacktop streets, screened-in porches fronting two-story brick houses with shingle roofs, a main street with shops and parking meters, a central park with a white gazebo under giant maples.…

Another man said I don't own my kids' teacher, I don't own my doctor, I don't need to own my house. I just want to pay the collective for it, not some landlord.

Either everyone's happy or no one is safe. But we're never happy. So we'll never be safe.

Everyone was equal there. Men, women, children, and people you couldn't say what they were. All the various skin tones, and wherever you came from before, it didn't matter. In this new place you made it all new, and people were just people, meant to be equal, and to treat each other respectfully at all times. It

To get what you want, get what you need. When the fire is hot enough, there is no smoke. No fear when in your place. Do not allow anger to poison you. Each person is his own judge. It is not good for anyone to be alone. Everyone who does well must have dreamed something. The one who tells the stories rules the world.

When everyone was seated they took up the water pitchers and poured each other's water

What's good is what's good for the land. Instead of working for profit, we do whatever is good for the land. Taking care of the land takes better care of the people over the long haul.

Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty.

But the problem of utopia, of collective meaning, is to find an individual meaning. —Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia

The best Plan B will emerge from the multitudes.

N?u ch? hám l?i ích trÆ°á»›c m?t mà không giúp ?? ng??i khác, dù bi?t rõ là h? Ä'ang g?p khó kh?n, thì ngay lúc Ä'ó b?n có th? th?y Ä'i?u Ä'ó có l?i cho mình, nhÆ°ng v? lâu dài, Ä'ó ch?ng khác nào hành vi tá»± g?m nh?m b?n thân mình.

Cùng t?n t?i, cùng th?nh v??ng

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

even the straightest Of issues looks pretty oblique When a movement turns into a clique...

Caltech is a wonderful place. Named the top university in the world by the Times of London in each of the last three years, it is small enough—just 300 professors, 1000 undergrads, and 1200 graduate students—that I know Caltech experts in all branches of science. It was

y hemos contagiado a la comunidad física mundial nuestros niveles matemáticos escandalosamente bajos.