Quotes About Community

People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.

Financial capital - the wherewithal for mass marketing - has steadily replaced social capital - that is, grassroots citizen networks - as the coin of the realm.

Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

If we think of politics as an industry, we might delight in its new "labour-saving efficiency", but if we think of politics as democratic deliberation, to leave people out is to miss the whole point of the exercise.

Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely to interact regularly only with kin and neighborhood children, which limits their formation of valuable weak ties.

Caring for kids was once a more widely shared, collective responsibility, but that ethic has faded in recent decades.

More plausible suspects in our mystery are the things that students collectively bring with them to school, ranging from(on the positive side of the ledger) academic encouragement at home and private funding for "extras" to (on the negative side) crime, drugs, and disorder. Whom you go to school with matters a lot.

Here the question is whether growing up in a poor neighborhood imposes any additional handicaps. The answer is yes.

By contrast, almost all our richer kids said that (with some qualifications) they do trust other people. That comparison reflects not paranoia on the part of poor kids, but the malevolent social realities within which they live and the fact that people and institutions have so often failed them.

parents in poor neighborhoods are more likely to experience depression, stress, and illness, which in turn "are associated with less warm and consistent parenting.

The policeman is the most important social worker we have. Often it is far better to settle an argument or disperse a crowd and move on than to make an arrest.

you got to give it away to keep it

The town was full of murderers, gamblers and whores, few of whom might be called upon to set aside their differences and fight against the supernatural forces of evil.

They were pitifully few in numbers. More than two thirds of the town's population had died in the storm

If you stay right where you are, then people will eventually come to you

My friends' thirty dollars wouldn't go far with gas at thirty-six cents a gallon.

Putin had been a KGB foreign intelligence officer who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and he was generally considered untrustworthy and immoral by the intelligence community.

Vera reached behind her and handed Tracy a basket containing a wrapped loaf of her homemade bread, a glass container of salt, and a bottle of wine. "The bread is so that you may never know hunger," she said. "The salt is so that your marriage will always have flavor. The wine is so you will always have something to celebrate.

Night and day. San Francisco is wine and cheese; Oakland is beer and bratwurst.

Baptist church, a blur of oscillating white sheets of paper. The persistent

I say we have Del and Faz ask around, find out if any cats have gone missing in the kid's neighborhood or if he trolls the Internet

where did these people their food? i'm hungry.

The liturgical person discovers who he is in the context of a community that listens to and explains the Bible and acts in accord with it. In this, he stands opposed to those whose identity is shaped by the heroes, ideals, and norms of the environing secular culture and to those whose sense of self is formed by the texts and practices of other religions.