Quotes About Community

All day long they hold what look like philosophical discussions, gesticulating slowly with their free hands and clasping tins of beer with the other. They seem to share knowledge of a world where each of them once had a place.

Relations between people were conditioned by the fact that one or other of you could be one of them. Everyone suspected everyone else, and the mistrust this bred was the foundation of social existence. Miriam could have been denounced

Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences . [Ensemble, c'est tout]

Un mundo en el que todo el mundo se suicida así: a fuego lento y arrastrando consigo a los más débiles.

Ils seront tous faits quand j'arriverai...Ce qui est amusant, c'est de s'enivrer en même temps que les autres, sinon c'est un peu déprimant...

On se saluait chaque matin et l'on se droguait gentiment en rentrant le soir. Shit, herbe, pinard, incunables, Marie-Antoinette ou Heineken, c'était chacun son trip et Marvin pour tous.

casual stall at the market?

Mary Barton,

stand the sods up against a wall

Only the Black woman can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.

1]The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. 2]But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. 3]We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Society than solitude is worse And man to man is still the greatest curse.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

But what is "public property" if not an oxymoron?

It's not easy to know how to make a life, much less avert planetary destruction. Luckily there is still company, human and not human.

Yet fungal eating is often generous; it makes worlds for others.

I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.

Anything that keeps one from feeling alone can be a consolation. Not only can what others are suffering be a consolation while we are suffering, but even knowing what others suffered long ago can be consoling.

Once, back then, a young riverman had even publicly cursed the camp. He was immediately arrested and locked up in the camp for several weeks so that he saw firsthand what was going on inside there. When he got out, he looked strange and didn't answer a single question people asked him. He eventually found work on a barge, and later, his relatives said, he moved to Holland for good—a story that astounded the entire village back then.

It is good people who make good places.

The most important distinction anyone can ever make in their life is between who they are as an individual and their connection with others.

There's a saying, "There are no atheists in foxholes," but it should be amended to add ". . . or in penitentiaries."* If I am ever incarcerated you can bet I'll be signing up for every form of religious education offered. They have the best snacks; they observe holidays and often meet in air-conditioned halls.

Being an atheist had never stopped me from enjoying the ritual, community singing, gay friendly and general do-unto-others-as-you-would-have-them-do-unto-you sentiment of the school's chapel services, plus, the school had amazing camping trips. A camping trip that includes margaritas? What's not to like?

Everybody is an outsider, if you go deep enough. The trick is reassuring people that you're their kind of outsider.