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The community of living is the carriage of the Lord.
-Proverb
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-Elaine Agather
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We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.
-Eberhard Arnold, August, 1928
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Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people.
-Ella Baker
In Moving the Mountain, by Ellen Cantarow, 1980.
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Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know.
-Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind
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Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
-Samuel Butler
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
-Orson Scott Card
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Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
-Anthony D'Angelo
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In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem
-J. A. Dever
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Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
-John W. Gardner
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Being in a pageant is not just about beauty. It's more about service to the community and being a role model and making a difference. It's being proud of your city. It's all what you put into it...
-Chantel Giamanco
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
-John Hay
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
-Eugene Ionesco
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
-Thomas Jefferson
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!
-Soren Kierkegaard
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
-Henry Kissinger
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Let there be a small country with few people . . .
Though neighboring communities overlook one another and the crowing of cocks and barking of dogs can be heard,
Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another.
-Lao-Tzu
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An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.
-Walter Lippmann
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I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did not follow Jesus. Or worse, preferring the company of my sovereign self. But soon I found that my preferences were honored by neither Scripture nor Jesus. I didn't come to the conviction easily, but finally there was no getting around it: there can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no obedience in following Jesus, no wholeness in the Christian life apart from immersion and embrace of community. I am not myself by myself. Community, not the highly vaunted individualism of our culture, is the setting in which Christ is at play.
-Eugene Peterson
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, 2005
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
-George Bernard Shaw
attributed as from a speech at Brighton
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Community cannot long feed on itself, it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond: their unknown and undiscovered sisters and brothers.
-Howard Thurman
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Books about Community
