Quotes about Community

Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.

In almost any group of people you'll find hierarchy. When groups of adults form in the real world, it's generally for some common purpose, and the leaders end up being those who are best at it. The problem with most schools is, they have no purpose. But hierarchy there must be. And so the kids make one out of nothing.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone.

We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in! —EDWIN MARKHAM