Quotes About Community

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

One of the ironies of cults is that the craziest groups are often composed of the most caring people.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

The hotel balconies were mobbed. The beach was mobbed. A thousand heads and lenses swiveled in the same direction. Estimates later put the crowd in and around the Cape at nearly two million. According to police reports, more than a hundred wallets were lifted that night. There were two fatal stabbings, fifteen attempted assaults, and one premature labor. (The child, a four-pound girl, was delivered on a trestle table at the International House of Pancakes in Cocoa Beach.)

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

We live at a certain level of abstraction; we interact as bodies, not cell colonies.

The more you are in contact with others, the more graceful and at ease you become. Isolation, on the other hand, engenders an awkwardness in your gestures, and leads to further isolation, as people start avoiding you.

La gente está cada vez más aislada, y ansía experiencias colectivas. Permite que tu ferviente y contagiosa fe, en prácticamente todo, le dé algo en qué creer.

Daily Law: Instead of using this remarkable instrument as a means to get attention or to vent your rage and display your superiority, see the internet in this different light—an invitation to a fascinating journey inside a global brain and the surprises it can bring you by roaming freely in this vast space and making surprising connections.

El aislamiento es tan fatal para las artes creativas como para las artes sociales.

Since power is a human creation, it is inevitably increased by contact with other people.

This reveals the power you have to short-circuit envy by placing attention on other people instead of yourself and engaging with them on a meaningful level.

The Black Sheep. The herd shuns the black sheep, uncertain whether or not it belongs with them. So it straggles behind, or wanders away from the herd, where it is cornered by wolves and promptly devoured. Stay with the herd—there is safety in numbers. Keep your differences in your thoughts and not in your fleece.

Rome is not defined by rivers, or mountains, or even seas; Rome is not a question of blood, or race, or religion; Rome is an ideal. Rome is the highest embodiment of liberty and law that mankind has yet achieved in the ten thousand years since our ancestors came down from those mountains and learned how to live as communities under the rule of law.

We are an ark.......surrounded by a rising flood of discord

Rome is not merely a matter of geography...Rome is not defined by rivers, or mountains, or even seas; Rome is not a question of blood or race, or religion; Rome is an ideal. Rome is the highest embodiment of liberty and law that mankind has yet achieved since our ancestors came down from those mountains and learned to live as communities under the rule of law

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

But if you really believe that your neighbors must have laws for their own good, why shouldn't you pay for it?

I really didn't mean to steal it. Mr. Williams shook his head. He scratched at his chin nervously. Why not? That's what they're there for. Tunes belong to everybody. So do stories.

Leadership is not a solo act; it's a team performance. 

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

The newest pups always blame the elders of the pack.