Quotes About Community

Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to, I mean? "Sure. One implies choice; the other doesn't.

What right does she have to weigh in when she doesn't even live here anymore?

Friendship in college was different that way. You spend all this time with people, sometimes every day, every meal. There was no hiding who you were in front of your friends. You were just naked.

Go where people sleep and see if they are safe

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity.

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

What would it be like to make it so late into life before trouble hit? To always have someone on the front porch, calling you to dinner? The husband doesn't have even a touch of this raised-by-wolvesness.

Evolution designed us to cry out if we are being abandoned. To make as much noise as possible so the tribe will come back for us.

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.

What's keeping you here?" he says. Please, I think, but no, I can't even look at him. All these people. I have so many people, you wouldn't believe it.

Sometimes I find myself having little conversations in my head with the punk rock kids upstairs.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. A home has a perimeter.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. A home has a perimeter. But sometimes our perimeter was breached by neighbors, by Girl Scouts, by Jehovah's Witnesses. I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.

When she tells people she might move to the country, they say, But aren't you afraid you're going to get lonely? Get?

Even when you'd lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.

The next day I called my neighbouring farmers to say I was going to have a coronary, and they all had the same piece of advice. I had to accept whatever happens, because that's farming. They also said I had to be patient, which is not possible. I can't be patient. It's not in my DNA. It's a bit like telling Nicholas Witchell he has to be a Moroccan cage fighter.

I think it's because, in our complicated lives, we yearn only for the simple. An evening in front of the telly. A nice sit-down. A game of cards. At a drinks party, I can find myself talking to a fascinating and beautiful woman who's just written a book about something interesting and clever. But what I yearn for is to be in the pub with my mates.

Let's defend the principle of a society that cares for everyone and everyone cares for everyone else.

The common good is the aspiration of all of us.