Communal Quotes

125 Communal quotes by 112 unique authors

Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is… — Starhawk
Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of… — Erik Larson
Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward… — Eberhard Arnold
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services,… — Karl Hess
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. — Justin Kaplan
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical… — James Howard Kunstler
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace.… — Lance Morrow
Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power… — Unknown Author
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example,… — Unknown Author
In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable,… — Gerald Jonas
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic… — Albert Einstein
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. — Curt Sachs
Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. — Robert Brustein
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of… — Robertson Davies
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know,… — Arundhati Roy
Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to… — Adrian Cadbury
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with… — Virginia Hamilton
Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room. — Judith Thurman
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a… — John Kao
The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good.… — Laozi
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to… — Alain de Botton
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of… — Martha Gellhorn
My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings.… — Bob Dylan
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality. — Khaleda Zia
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child… — Marlo Thomas

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