Quotes About Community

What generalisations can we make about life in the pre-agricultural world nevertheless? It seems safe to say that the vast majority of people lived in small bands numbering several dozen or at most several hundred individuals, and that all these individuals were humans. It

However, fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively.

Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling different stories. Under the right circumstances myths can change rapidly.

We thus live in an increasingly lonely world of unravelling communities and families.

Members of a coalition spend more time together, share food, and help one another in times of trouble.

Escaping the narrow definition of self might well become a necessary survival skill in the 21st century

The collapse of the family and the local community and their replacement by the state and the market.

As money beings down the fans of community, religion and state, the world is in danger of becoming one big and rather heartless marketplace

The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any

the crucial factor in our conquest of the world was our ability to connect many humans to one another.

We do not trust the stranger, or the next-door neighbour – we trust the coin they hold. If they run out of coins, we run out of trust.

Since all social orders and hierarchies are imagined, they are all fragile, and the larger the society, the more fragile it is.

relationship between humans and a small group of ethereal

Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world.

Paganism is more of an attitude of mind than a fixed creed. It is always tempting to ask, "what do Pagans believe?" but a better question is "what do Pagans do?

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Se g?sesc oameni în sat care, la opt guri, au o singur? lingur?. ?i-o trec din mîn? în mîn?. Noi, se cheam? c? sîntem oameni cu stare. Avem patru-cinci linguri în cas?...

A passion for the commons revives the stakes of politics.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating. We hope to create a huge conversation while we are there!

elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.

she has carried this sacred sense of community building into

As our elders teach us how to find more inner satisfaction, we'll decrease our reliance on consumerism and live in greater harmony with the Earth and its resources.