Community Quotes

Perhaps most ominous, we have experienced a dramatic decline in social capital in recent decades, especially among the less educated and less well off. Social capital, defined as goodwill, fellowship, sympathy, and social intercourse, is a crucial factor in building and maintaining personal and family physical and mental health and strong communities.

If this were Comic-Con, I would take a bullet for that kid. But here in the real world, trespassing is a crime.

That dude was hardcore racist, like 1800's Disney-style!

Coach Bogner: Jeff Winger, shouldn’t you be at an Urban Outfitters?
Jeff: I’ll go there later if I feel like it.

Garrett: *Was?* This is not over! This is still happening! *Right now!*
[Get's shot by Leonard]
Jeff Winger: Leonard? Leonard! I'm not playing!
Leonard: *Everyone's playing!*

Annie Edison: Let's get back to Britta and Jeff.
Jeff Winger: There is no Britta and Jeff!
Pierce Hawthorne: He said, fully erect.

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Community is about connecting people who need a break with people who might be able to give them one. It's all about people helping one another. The idea is not new.

Me and Abed have an agreement. If one of us dies, we stage it to look like a suicide due to the unjust cancellation of Firefly.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

The Social Network sounds a pertinent alarm against some arguably unhealthy ways our culture is currently using new communication technology, but to say that this film defines a generation is to dismiss the sense of community, the shared empathy, and the collective beauty that our new connectivity has allowed us this past decade.

I truly believe connecting to a like minded community and being open to different perspectives will improve the world. We can’t create any kind of movement without community or the ability to listen to opposing viewpoints. You might not agree with me and that’s okay. However, the conversation has to start somewhere. Conversations about improvements must happen in active, engaged communities.

The most important tool has got to be a telescope. Look through it backwards and it shrinks your enemy!

This rabble you're talking about...they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? My father didn't think so. People were human-beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. In my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be.

We choose each other again and again, and so create a community of two.

Accidents don't just happen over and over and over again. Okay? This isn't budget daycare!

We're at the mercy of each other and ourselves.

Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community.

I didn't realize we were really good friends. I figured we were more like Chandler and Phoebe. They never really had stories together.

This is America: the Knights of Columbus, the Grange, Hadassah, the Disabled American Veterans, the Order of Ahepa, the Business and Professional Women of America, the union hall, the Bible study group, LULAC, "Holy Name" -- a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.