3,462 Quotes About Community

Regarding the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, I am interested to know how much the international astronomy community has spent on advertising the biologically toxic project to the masses and how much has been spent on researching High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD)?

Indeed, I would not achieve the integration I sought until I found two nutrients essential to so many survivors. First, I found community and then I found a way to contribute.

Uniqueness and independence are clearly not synonyms in the mind of Benedict of Nursia. Uniqueness and responsibility go hand in hand in Benedictine spirituality. By all means I should be who I am and have what I need, but you have a claim on those gifts. Those gifts were given to me so much for your sake as for my own. The community does not exist to make me possible. Together we exist to make the gospel possible.

We are made beautiful and glorious not by the ways in which we differ from the rest of the biosphere, but by our place, perhaps unique in the universe, in this community of living things.

Fieldworkers must build a community of sentiment, with local and long-distance members, that opposes the competitive individualism of academia. The lone scholar is a sociological impossibility. Our “individual” works rely on language, literatures, and feedback from colleagues (Becker, 1986).

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

The global village is illusory at best -- and, at worst, is evidence of delusion on a global scale. We live in the village -- the community -- where our home happens to be.

People are never truly alone or separate from community, and cannot be.

If each community clean it's surroundings, the country will be clean.