Quotes About Community

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

This was replaced by a widespread and aggressive individualism whereby everyone looks out for himself, at the expense of others and without worrying about the good of society.

Los celulares ayudan a estar conectados a los que están a distancia. Los celulares permiten a los que se conectan… mantenerse a distancia.

Vivir en una ciudad es, notoriamente, una experiencia ambivalente. Atrae y repele, pero para complicar aún más la situación del habitante de la ciudad, son los mismos aspectos de la vida urbana, intermitentemente o de manera simultánea, los que atraen y repelen." Zygmunt Bauman / Amor líquido

Aggressivität und Ablehnung kommen wie die anderen harten, rauen und bitteren Stammespraktiken in der Maske des Schutzgewährens und Abschirmens der "Gemeinschaft" daher.

Ser local en un mundo globalizado es una señal de penuria y degradación social.

Un Estado es "social" cuando promueve el principio, comunitariamente respaldado, de prevención colectiva como protección contra los infortunios individuales y sus consecuencias.

El precepto de amar al prójimo desafía a los instintos determinados por la naturaleza; pero también desafía el sentido de la supervivencia establecido por la naturaleza, y el del amor a uno mismo, que lo resguarda.

A vida urbana é intrínseca e irremediavelmente ambivalente.

Las uniones no tienen en qué apoyarse salvo en el chateo y los mensajes de texto; la unión sólo se mantiene gracias a nuestra charla, nuestro llamado telefónico, nuestros mensajes de texto. El que deja de hablar queda fuera. El silencio es igual a la exclusión.

la red muestra lo mismo que se ve en un patio escolar, con la diferencia de que en este patio no hay maestros, ni policías, ni moderadores que vigilen lo que sucede".

T]he secret of all successful 'socialization' is making individuals wish to do what is needed to enable the system to reproduce itself.

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement.

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Sometimes a place to work, or a place to relax--even if only for an hour--is all you need. That, and good friends. Without those things, the city will break you into a million tiny pieces. But what in the world could be harder to find?

Berkeley should be a haven for everyone, yet we should be wary of predators and thugs who drain our energy and take advantage of the institutions we've helped to create and sustain.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

The way black women say girl can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, Girl....

But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing.

Australian Aborigines slept with their dogs for warmth on cold nights, the coldest being a "three dog night." —WIKIPEDIA