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Community Quotes by Parker J. Palmer
- 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 being…
- Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about the absence of…
- Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided…
- No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and…
- ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that…
- Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get…
More Community Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
- We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry
- There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their… — Joe Baca
- Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am… — Ernie Banks
- I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — Jane Addams
- Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
- You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. — Henry Ward Beecher