Communes Quotes

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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other… — Diane Ackerman
How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can… — Hannah Whitall Smith
I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in… — Adolf Hitler
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me. — Patricia Arquette
I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape)… — Cynthia Heimel
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to… — Henry David Thoreau
When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can… — Sri Chinmoy
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. — Friedrich Engels
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone. — Rajneesh
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms. — George Washington Carver
I've been saying that all along, that if you open the door for gay marriage, then you have to have the polygamists and the triads… — Bill O'Reilly
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,… — Henry David Thoreau
The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth, prosperity; chasing a good time,… — Tim Conway
The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. Itâ€™s like a commune and… — Ben Daniels
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. — Margaret Mead
We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs,… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George A. Sheehan
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are… — Andrea Dworkin
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season. — Tracy Kidder

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