Quotes About Community

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Why are coffee people so nice?

Smart Patients and other online communities are demonstrating that patients can learn a tremendous amount from one another.

Wherever I set my foot, not just a courtroom, could be a place of worship. My

Those are the sites that only allow you to be a listener and not a broadcaster. A site called Live365.com is different.

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Friendship, affection, trust—these are the things that, long before people signed contracts, long before they wrote down laws, held human societies together.

I consider this tribalism the biggest problem of our time. I think it could undo millennia of movement toward global integration, unravel the social web just when technology has brought the prospect of a cohesive planetary community within reach. Given that the world is still loaded with nuclear weapons and that biotechnology is opening a Pandora's box of new weaponry, you can imagine our tribalistic impulses ushering in a truly dark age.

Modern environments seem more likely than some previous environments to lead to this sort of malfunctioning. They permit, for example, a degree of social isolation that was unknown to our ancestors.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.

Yo ahora era un hombre libre, y ¿qué tiene que ver la sociedad con la libertad?

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?

Por momentos puede ser maravilloso eso de que todo el mundo escriba porque uno encuentra colegas en todas partes , y por momentos puede resultar pesado, porque cualquier gilipollas iletrado se siente imbuido de todos los defectos y de ninguna de las virtudes de un escritor verdadero. Nicanor Parra lo dijo: tal vez sería conveniente leer un poco más.

Madness really is contagious, and friends are a blessing, especially when you're on your own.

in other words near the settlement of El Obelisco, which was neither a village nor exactly a suburb of Santa Teresa, but a way station for the poorest of the poor who came each day from the south, people who slept there at night and even died in hovels that they didn't think of as homes but as one more stop along the road to something different or at least a place where they would be fed.

where Halder and Hans usually arrived first and had something to eat, perhaps sausage with a bit of sauerkraut.

En el querer los mexicanos somos todos iguales. Ante Dios, también —dijo el taxista.

This experience in Malawi changed my whole outlook on how much all of God's servants are interwoven and interlinked. The most humble ministries or missionaries, evangelists, teachers, and shepherds, even those who are perhaps considered failures, are part of the "big picture" and will rejoice with all of us in harvest-joy. This sums up this great book of Roberts Liardon. Let's join their ranks. The harvest goes on. Jesus is coming soon!

Spirituality can be an important framework to help us know ourselves better while building relationships with other people in our world.

It does appear that in some other cultures the work of motherhood is not left entirely up to one person the way it is here, so a baby can be handed around to many relatives, which gives the mother some blessed relief. Our society tends to elevate pregnancy and childbirth to unrealistic romantic heights then leave women on their own to struggle with the task, making them wonder what they are doing wrong when at times it all seems too much.

the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;