Quotes About Community

I was a seventh grader, twelve, and I had tagged along to so many church camps and vacation bible schools as a preacher's daughter that I was excited to be with kids and believers my own age. One of the best parts of every church camp stay was when we sang together. People who were once strangers sang hymns that felt they like were written for just that shared moment.

When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as it is for anyone else?

As Feministing.com commenter electron-Blue noted in response to the 2008 New York Times Magazine article "Students of Virginity," on abstinence clubs at Ivy League colleges, "There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete's sake.

Americans believe it's best for kids to be with their parents as much as possible; the truth is, however, that our kids do better when they have a lot of people invested in their growth and development—not just their parents, and not just their mothers.

This is why I prefer Queens to any other place. The borough of my parents and small business owners is populated by people who know how to work around the system when it tries to fuck you.

I love humanity. It's people I don't like.

The book identifies you as part of the tribe. On the opposite extreme, there are people who will walk up to you when you're reading a book because they think you're lonely.

Amore fraterno. La forma più fondamentale d'amore, è l'amore fraterno. Con questo intendo senso di responsabilità, premure, rispetto, comprensione per il prossimo; esso è caratterizzato dall'assenza di esclusività.

The human desire to experience union with others is rooted in the specific conditions of existence that characterize the human species and is one of the strongest motivators of human behavior.

To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.

Solidarity isn't merely a task, it is a pleasure and the best assurance of security.

The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness. The absolute failure to achieve this aim means insanity, because the panic of complete isolation can be overcome only by such a radical withdrawal from the world outside that the feeling of separation disappears-- because the world outside, from which one is separated, has disappeared.

the vast majority of people have a feeling that there is almost nothing in which they can really, concretely and not abstractly influence and participate in the affairs of society.

Contrariamente ai riti proposti da un'intera comunità, quelli individuali sono caratterizzati da un senso ci colpa e rimorso.

No nos sorprende cuando los dirigentes políticos y los ejecutivos de los negocios toman decisiones que parecen beneficiarnos y que al mismo tiempo son nocivas y peligrosas para la comunidad . Desde luego, si el egoísmo es un pilar en la ética practica contemporánea. No parecen saber que la avaricia (y la sumisión) vuelve a la gente estupida, aun a lo que atañe a su verdadero interés, al interés de sus propias vidas y las vidas de sus parejas y sus hijos.

religious ideology is needed in order to keep people from losing discipline and thus threatening social coherence.

The idea of the responsible and well informed citizen who participates in the important decisions of the community is the central concept of democracy. But due to the quantitative increase in population and to the influence of methods of mass suggestion, the substance of democracy is weakening.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are reduced from what man dreads: isolation

Unless he belonged somewhere, unless his life had some meaning and direction, he would feel like a particle of dust and be overcome by his individual insignificance.

FaÅŸizm ve benzeri hareketler (ki, bunlar?n isimlerini onlar ortaya ç?k?p geliÅŸtikten sonra koyar?z ) ancak, hem ferdi ve hem de toplumsal hayat? etkileyen kararlar? verme noktas?nda yayg?n bir pasifliÄŸin olduÄŸu ve insanlar?n kat?l?mc? olmad??? toplumlarda yeÅŸerirler. (Hayat? Sevmek)

Assume, for instance, that 20 percent of the American car-consuming population were to decide not to buy private automobiles any more, because they believed that, in comparison with excellent public transportation, the private automobile is economically wasteful, ecologically poisonous, and psychologically damaging—a drug that creates an artificial feeling of power, increases envy, and helps one to run away from oneself.

the structure of modern society affects man in two ways simultaneously: he becomes more independent, self-reliant, and critical, and he becomes more isolated, alone, and afraid. The understanding of the whole problem of freedom depends on the very ability to see both sides of the process and not to lose track of one side while following the other.

In Berlin] wird getauscht. Wer haben will, muß hingeben, was er hat.

Berlin ist natürlich großartig. Man denkt, man sitzt im Kino. Aber ich weiß nicht recht, ob ich immer hier leben möchte. In Neustadt haben wir den Obermarkt und den Niedermarkt und den Bahnhofsplatz. Und die Spielplätze am Fluß und im Amselpark. Das ist alles. Trotzdem, Professor, ich glaube, mir genügt's. Immer solcher Fastnachtsrummel, immer hunderttausend Straßen und Plätze? Da würde ich mich dauernd verlaufen.