Quotes About Community

The city is where you go to hide, she said. In the country, in small towns or in the fields or forests, everybody sees you and everyone knows your business. In the city you are invisible because nobody cares.

The heathen grew up heathenish and, in Windsor Villa at least, that was just fine.

Religion has moved out of the private space. (...) The moment it moves into the public sphere it becomes everybody's business.

they have nowhere else to go, and nobody else to be

The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in full view of strangers and even fucked in the shadows if they wanted to. What did it mean to be a man so completely among men, and women too? When solitude was banished, did one become more oneself, or less? Did the crowd enhance one's selfhood or erase it?

Ellos hasta le contaban sus sueños, aunque muy pocos soñaban más de una vez al mes, porque eran muy pobres para permitirse esos lujos.

She has lost her city eyes. Who you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people.

I learned that love is for the most part absent and, when it appears, is usually fitful, fleeting, and finally unsatisfactory. I learned that the communities men build are based on the oppression of the many by the few, and I did not understand, I still do not understand, why the many accept this oppression

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The people who kill your children are the people who's children were playing with your children yesterday. That's one of the most mysterious things about the 'flip' into hatred. You don't hate the people who are strangers to you because that creates a kind of indifference; you hate the people who live next door… It's a curious thing that love and hate are so closely tied together that just a flip of the coin can flip one into the other.

if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Vecina y amiga. ¿Qué más tengo que decir? Por supuesto que las maliciosas revistas de escándalo de la ciudad llenaron columnas con insinuaciones y frases de doble sentido, pero ello no nos autoriza a ponernos a su nivel.

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

One of the problems with religion is that it creates in-group loyalty and out-group hostility, even when members of one's own group are behaving like psychopaths.

Religious moderation, insofar as it represents an attempt to hold on to what is still serviceable in orthodox religion, closes the door to more sophisticated approaches to spirituality, ethics, and the building of strong communities. Religious moderates seem to believe that what we need is not radical insight and innovation in these areas but a mere dilution of Iron Age philosophy.

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

Religion is a term like sports ... To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful.

The fascist says, It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ and if you do, wonderful! And if you don't, then you're an enemy.

The neighbors find the event a great cause for celebration and honor the young man's parents by giving them gifts of food and money.

Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.

Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.