Quotes About Community

No one single person needs to be a genius or a visionary or even a great artist for the result to be permanent and to transcend generations. In the same way, the clubs we make are collectively smarter than the people we are. Reason, like musicals, emerges from the meeting of many minds.

A Minnesota pastor was tarred and feathered because people overheard him praying in German with a dying woman.

The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration. To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls specificity, the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.

And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

In every one of the villages

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper. A little beef and bingo at the Nugents'.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

La sociedad y la conversación, pues, son los remedios más poderosos para restituir la tranquilidad a la mente, si en algún momento, desgraciadamente, la ha perdido;

The most sacred laws of justice are the laws which guard the life and person of our neighbor.

Rechaza específicamente las intervenciones particulares del Estado para fomentar tal o cual actividad, para proteger tal o cual sector en mayor beneficio de la comunidad. El argumento que emplea es profundamente práctico: el Estado no sabe cómo hacerlo.

what is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one.

If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least . . . abstain from robbing and murdering one another.

Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it.

Ninguna sociedad puede ser floreciente y feliz si la mayor parte de sus miembros es pobre y miserable.

Comprenderemos que sin la ayuda y la cooperación de muchos miles de personas, el individuo más insignificante d un país civilizado no podría disponer de las comodidades que tiene, comodidades que solemos suponer equivocadamente que son fáciles y sencillas de conseguir.

Number one: you are not the first and you will certainly not be the last. Number two: remember, it's not about the money—it's about The Chain.

Lia had mentioned staleness, and I wondered if this was it. Growing old in this town, with these women you've known your entire life, eating cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches, and rehashing the same gossip week after week. As comfortable as I was in my routine, in my sameness, I could see how that might seem terrifying.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

That we looked out for one another- that we watched out for each other's kids and shared the harvest of our gardens and took care of our old people, and when we did the little things, like bake a cake, we'd bake two, one for our home and one for the neighbor.

Orphans have many parents.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey

When you marry a man from your own village, you know how he salts his food.

Adriana Trigiani

Nationalism had now replaced neighborliness.