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Quotes About Community

In a word, the system is this: no stint or limit to what the community possesses in abundance, but equal sharing and dividing of those commodities which are scarce or apt to run short.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
The mitigated individualism of the collectivist system certainly could not maintain itself alongside a partial communism
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
There is not even a thought, or an invention, which is not common property, born of the past and the present
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
All things for all.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
No more of such vague formulae as 'The right to work', or 'To each the whole result of his labour'. What we proclaim is the Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Don't compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
in the long run the practice of solidarity proves much more advantageous to the species than the development of individuals endowed with predatory inclinations.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Well-being for all is not a dream.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The right to work," or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main Ã¢â'¬Â¦ any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
Quizá la identidad de una persona sólo pueda definirse en relación a las identidades de los demás. O quizá cualquier identidad no sea más que una interpretación de los demás
~ Qiu Xiaolong
The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
~ Queen Latifah
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
~ Quentin Crisp
Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
~ Quentin Crisp
It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.
~ Quentin Crisp
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
~ Quentin Crisp
People have always imagined, or pretended to imagine, that I seek to provoke hostile attention. This is rubbish. What I want is to be accepted by other people without bevelling down my individuality to please them — because if I do that, all the attention, all the friendship, all the hospitality that I receive is really for somebody else of the same name.
~ Quentin Crisp
As my friends became older, many of them married and moved out of Soho into the suburbs where their failure would be less apparent.
~ Quentin Crisp
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.
~ Quentin Crisp
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
~ Quincy Jones
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
~ Quoted in P.S. I Love You
Above all, the very world view, "Every town our home town, every[one our kin - ?????? ??? ??????? ??????]" can only emanate from a civilizational wisdom which has seen places, found merit in give and take and is enriched by travels, journeys and migrations.
~ R. Balakrishnan