Quotes About Community

The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people. I though everybody knew that.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, Hi, do you have any kids? and then, Why not, don't you like kids? I like kids, I will explain. I like kids very much. And when I almost run over them with my car, in my driveway, I will feel many different things.

You can exclude the excluded middle, but when you ride through, on your way to a lonely and more certain place, out the window you'll see everyone you've ever known living there.

The ants are my friends- they're blowing in the wind

One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in isolation, lurched and spazzed, sent them spinning fizzly back into empty, padded corners, disconnected and alone.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in the people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. They played around and lied to their spouses. But they recycled their newspapers!

One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time.

On Fridays there were fish fries or boils at which they served "lawyers" (burbot or eelpout), so-called because their hearts were in their butts.

Despite the fact that our brains are social organs, Western science studies each individual as a single, isolated organism rather than one embedded within the human community. This way of thinking leads us in the West to search for technical and abstract answers to human problems instead of looking at day-to-day human interactions

It is the power of being with others that shapes our brains.

Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemies.

a few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit

to believe there's so many dogs that all look the same.' Nancy smiled to herself. Red Dog was everybody's dog now

I had to live among them secretly, like one who conceals leprosy.

The mayor was also the local policeman, which meant that only one man needed to be bribed rather than two... The community was proud that he was their mayor and their policeman even though he had sold his neice to Pedro the Grocer for one hundred and twenty-two words.

A time comes when you are all alone...when you've come to the end of everything that can happen to you. It's the end of the world, even grief, your own grief, doesn't answer you anymore, and you have to retrace your steps, to go back among people, it makes no difference who.

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.

if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.

Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in working unless one works for someone, for something.

Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one.