Quotes About Community

For the first time ever we are bound together instead of miles apart in the same place.

If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

Maybe part of the problem of feeling like this life isn't my real life is that I have no connections, no real links to anyone.

We know from extensive experience that appearance and wealth are not predictors of good loving. We try to avoid ranking people as better or worse than each other and are unhappy with those who want to relate to our rank more than our selves. Hierarchies produce victims on the top as well as the bottom, because it is almost as alienating to be approached by too many people for the wrong reasons as it is to be approached by nobody at all.

Our beliefs about traditional marriage date from agrarian cultures, where you made everything you ate or wore or used, where large extended families helped get this huge amount of work done so nobody starved, and where marriage was a working proposition. When we talk about "traditional family values," this is the family we are talking about: an extended family of grandparents and aunts and cousins, an organization to accomplish the work of staying alive.

Sluts share their sexuality the way philanthropists share their money: because they have a lot of it to share, because it makes them happy to share it, because sharing makes the world a better place. Sluts often find that the more love and sex they give away, the more they have: a loaves-and-fishes miracle in which greed and generosity go hand in hand to provide more for everybody.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

Bigger isn't better; healthier is better. Steer clear of churches and youth workers who are driven by numbers, and surround yourself with those who are motivated by serving God faithfully and pursuing health.

Insulate yourself with friends and seek out wild places.

Organizations are not just places where people have jobs.

Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm a painter" -- well... you don't...probably need to do that. . . . if you're painting something that doesn't exist, I understand that, I can appreciate- . . . but if your pain- 'oh, it's a barnyard scene in autumn'--well then just take a picture of a barn in autumn! It's way better than a painting! - Before Turning the Gun on Himself [2012]

You can't know what difference you'll make, but you are part of something. I think so. We all have things we're meant to do. People we're meant to care about. We're all meant to matter.

You see football isn't just about 90 minutes, it's about passion and, yes, if you like, about life. We men will do things under the umbrella of football fandom that we would never dream of doing in any other sphere of life, and within the pages that follow I will try and explain why.

By Thursday, in fact, Katrina had become one of the half-dozen moments in American television that not only revealed events but actually defined the community of millions responding to it on television. It joined the Army-McCarthy hearings (1954), the Kennedy assassination (1963), the Apollo 11 moon landing (1969), the Watergate hearings (1973–74), and the attacks on September 11, 2001.

In the early days of our ascent, being a prolific liar would have gotten you shunned from the tribe.

Bring us together. Instead of turning us into their puppets, they'll teach us how to tame our destructive impulses, the demons of our nature, as they learned to do.

Evolution can work through competition, but it can work through cooperation also. Take a beehive.

We used to spend quality time with a few people. Actually with them—physically. For hours on end. Now we spend time interacting with hundreds of people, but on our phones, or sitting in a chair all alone facing a computer screen.

There was a great joke in there somewhere. A Jewish girl, an ex-priest, and a Muslim god go into a bar . . . .

The Chinese people were, by all accounts, a wonderful group—generous and peace-loving

Technology was supposed to bring the latest fiber-optic cables into every house in Celebration. It promised a computerized community network that would let any resident pull up his or her medical records at the hospital, monitor his or her child's network at school and communicate with teachers and administrators, or simply chat with neighbors or order carry out from one of the restaurants.