Quotes About Community

Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top

Fannie Flagg

Nous vivons dans un monde merveilleux, avec un seul problème : les gens.

What can I tell you about the town? I suppose if you had driven through it back

she had taught a class in oral history at the community college, and Elner Shimfissle had attended with her friend Irene Goodnight.

Newborns in Chicago's majority-White, upscale Streeterville neighborhood can expect, on average, to live to be ninety years old. That is three decades more than those born in Englewood, a predominantly African American neighborhood to the south.

Cities are an ideal way to organize human beings for modern life—allowing them to mingle, work, and play, all in the same place.

You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.

By calling in the Vigilantes, we are asking them to do what we can't or won't do ourselves.

a sixteen-year-old girl could keep a relationship with an older man from her mother, then who knew what else lay hidden in the minds of these island folks?

neighbors saw you get out of the car. And you

Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.

To belong is synonymous with banality.

A society so undisciplined in its cultural foundations could obviously not help but be a victim

I always find it hard to admit that anything done collectively can possibly be sincere, since the only truly sentient being is the individual).

Al hacer las cosas con otros pierdo, por lo menos una cosa, que es hacer las cosas solo.

To be published = the socialization of the self. What a base necessity!

El sabio —es decir, el hombre libre que sabe lo que de veras necesita— siempre preferirá vivir en la ciudad entre sus semejantes que solitario en la selva o en lo alto de un monte, sin más compañía que algún oso.

Pues bien, la Tierra no es un conjunto de parches ni de parcelas: mantenerla habitable y hermosa es una tarea que sólo puede ser asumida por los hombres en cuanto comunidad mundial, no desde el ventajismo miope de unos contra otros.

Desde el punto de vista ético, se considera que toda fuente de riqueza es social y por tanto implica responsabilidades sociales en quienes se benefician de ella, tanto más cuanto más provecho obtengan.

creo que el Estado es para los individuos, no los individuos para el Estado.

la mafia […] mostra, allo stato puro, la natura dei rapporti sociali

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

Es que, cuando los hombres llevan en la mente un mismo ideal, nada puede incomunicarlos, ni las paredes de una cárcel, ni la tierra de los cementerios, porque un mismo recuerdo, una misma alma, una misma idea, una misma conciencia y dignidad los alienta a todos.