Community quotes

community-minded quotes

take care

Submitted by admin on Wed, 17/09/2008 - 7:44pm

If we don't take care of the earth, the earth won't take care of us.

 - Sepp Holzer

make the world more equal

Submitted by admin on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 9:04am

Unless we make the world more equal, humanity will not survive.

- John Sulston

two visions of the future

Submitted by admin on Mon, 25/08/2008 - 9:38pm

I glimpsed two visions of the future.

the social world

Submitted by admin on Mon, 18/08/2008 - 8:23pm

According to Hans Monderman there are two
kinds of space, the “traffic world” and the “social world”. The traffic world

public peace

Submitted by admin on Mon, 11/08/2008 - 8:54am

Public peace - sidewalk and street peace - is kept primarily by an intricate, almost unconscious, network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves.

work to be done

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/08/2008 - 7:38pm

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.

- Marianne Williamson

loss of trust

Submitted by admin on Sun, 20/07/2008 - 12:33pm

Any weakness in controls leads, belatedly, to a loss of trust and an outbreak of control mechanisms

- Simon Lee, VC of Leeds Met University.

Lee S. (2003) Uneasy Ethics, Pimlico, London (p 164)

Anarchist community

Submitted by admin on Sun, 13/07/2008 - 7:07pm

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

- Alan Bennett

do what

Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/07/2008 - 6:11pm

Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

community and nature

Submitted by admin on Sat, 28/06/2008 - 11:02am

Industrialisation separates community from nature.

Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environment Network

time is running out

Submitted by admin on Mon, 23/06/2008 - 3:11pm

Time is running out: use it wisely.

Graffiti on storm-felled tree in Burley Park, Spring 2008

better rules

Submitted by admin on Sun, 15/06/2008 - 1:42pm

If bad rules got us into this mess, better ones - which go with, rather than against, the grain of humanity, community, and physical realities - can get us out again.

water you drink

Submitted by admin on Sat, 07/06/2008 - 8:29am

The water you drink today was the lifeblood of the clouds, will be the water in the river and seas tomorrow, supports all the animals, birds, creatures of the water and sea and the insects and plants

the cost and the value

Submitted by admin on Thu, 29/05/2008 - 9:55pm

Celebrities know the cost of everything, the value of little else, and fear obscurity.
Politicians know the price of friendship, the value of the media, and fear the cost of their policies.

untill capitalism crumbles

Submitted by admin on Tue, 20/05/2008 - 9:45pm

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.

the circus

Submitted by admin on Tue, 13/05/2008 - 10:22pm

The Circus has taken over the Asylum, Lifestyle is the new Entertainment, Fast Food is the new Bread; Can you juggle or ride bareback?

Attributed to Sharon Osbourne

Vulnerability

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/05/2008 - 9:28am

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet

John F Kennedy

(thanks to Jonathan)

at every turn of daily life

Submitted by admin on Fri, 25/04/2008 - 8:55am

Legal, political, commercial and scientific structures must be changed to serve the best in human nature, not the worst.

suggest a quote

Submitted by admin on Fri, 25/04/2008 - 8:42am

You can suggest a quote on a community theme, by filling in the form here

have you ever turned on the TV

Submitted by admin on Fri, 25/04/2008 - 8:38am

Have you ever turned on the TV and seen an advert giving you information about a product?

in his memory

Submitted by admin on Fri, 25/04/2008 - 8:36am

So, in his memory, I'd invite you to settle into this sunny weekend, and take a moment to sit in the garden, sip a glass of chilled Australian chardonnay, become so intrigued by what is familiar that

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