Quotes About Community

Ce sera toujours un pays de factions, de désordre, de passe-droits, de népotisme, de corruption. Mais c'est aussi le pays de la douceur de vivre, de la chaleur humaine, de la générosité. Et de tes amis les plus vrais.

Rien ne remplace la chaleur d'une bande d'amis. Rien, ni le travail, ni l'argent, ni la vie familiale. Rien ne remplace ces moments où des amis se retrouvent, partagent leurs idées, leurs rêves, leurs repas !

Bir kad?na ya da bir erkeÄŸe sayg? duymak demek, onunla her hakka sahip bir insan gibi, özgür ve yetiÅŸkin bir insan gibi konuÅŸmak demektir, yoksa onu, topraÄŸa ait bir serf gibi, içinde yaÅŸad??? topluluÄŸa ait olan, ba??ml? bir varl?k olarak görmek deÄŸil.

La intimidad de un pueblo es su literatura. En ella quedan desveladas sus pasiones, sus aspiraciones, sus sueños, sus frustraciones, sus creencias, su visión del mundo que los rodea, su percepción de sí mismos y de los demás, incluida las que tienen ellos de nosotros.

Det er ikke den mest troende som får legitimitet, men den som fører en kamp som er identisk med folkets kamp.

Néanmoins, force est de constater que, dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, nulle part on ne parvient à faire vivre ensemble, de manière équilibrée et harmonieuse, des populations chrétiennes, musulmanes et juives.

Nous conservons pieusement la légende selon laquelle la transmission se fait « verticalement », d'une génération à la suivante, au sein des familles, des clans, des nations et des communautés de croyants ; alors que la vraie transmission est de plus en plus « horizontale », entre contemporains, qu'ils se connaissent ou pas, qu'ils s'aiment ou se détestent.

Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their labels don't understand either.

one person, of whose acts a great multitude … have made themselves every one the author" in order that peace will prevail.

The grey steel streets were indeed paltry (not our feelings, and no, not the blues) but those gray streets were dead and cold, despite our warm living selves celebrating the life in us dancing across their surfaces.

The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.

THE KING AND HIS PEOPLE

We say we want kids to be joyful/unmaterialistic/resilient. That's what sailing kids are like. They climb masts & can correctly identify obscure plant life. They don't care what somebody looks like when they meet them, they sometimes don't even speak the same language, but they work it out. They don't sit around ranking one kind of life against another.

We have no money to bestow upon a class of people that is not taken from the whole people," he continued; the individual was going to lose out to the group.

No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

The body of Christ has no arms and feet, but ours. In other words, God needs us as much as we need God.

I'm not my brother's keeper" is the lie infecting our streets and our neighborhoods (Genesis 4:9). This lie alienates us from God and one another.

In cyberspace, there are no mountains or oceans to protect people or their assets from others. Good neighborhoods and dangerous ones are unavoidably connected. We are all geographically unlucky.

These were my people: the abandoned, the unloved, the phenomenally unlucky.

People," he said. "They can't be underestimated.

Leadership at its core is about harnessing others' efforts to achieve something no one can achieve alone.