Bear Quote by Al N. Green

We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.

— Genesis P-Orridge

“Nothing unites a community so much as common cause against an external enemy, yet, in the same moment, that enemy becomes the essential support…

— Alan W. Watts

Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they…

— Jean Vanier

Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved…

— Richard Cornuelle

“Community is like a garden, it is an organic living thing; if it is neglected, it can overgrow with weeds and suffer decline. Communities…

— Cory Bernardi

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not…

— Audre Lorde

“The sense of community is that feeling of togetherness that brings us comfort. We are all alone in the world, so we strive to…

— Del Suggs

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but…

— Henri Nouwen

Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and…

— Northrop Frye

Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must…

— Robert Nozick

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

— Peter Block