“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.” WellsMayStillsTodayLastsChoicesPeaceCommunityChanceMankindChaosViolentAnnihilationCoexistenceLast Chance Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.” FirstsWellsMayHelpingEyeActionChoicesCommunityJusticeMankindPerspectiveDemandThirdsOvercomingLocalsDiscussionEngagementElsewhereGeographyAssessmentLives Of OthersOur ChoicesLocal CommunityParochialism Book:The Idea of Justice Source: The Idea of Justice
“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.” WayMayEnoughScienceNationsGrowsDifficultCommunityNaturalLandFoodGeniusMouthsDiscoveryResourcesEnglandPlentyDependentQuantityRescueThreatenedPerilLaboratoryDilemmaStarvationWheatChemistColossalCapriciousCivilisedFixationNatural PhenomenaNitrogen Author:William Crookes
“I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many respects, it's harder to detect when you have an independent actor who may be living in our midst, in our own communities.” ThinkingMayActorsCommunityConcernedHarderIndependentTerroristMidstTerrorist AttacksHomegrown Author:Jeh Johnson
“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.” MenMayDoeRunningDiesEvilCausesCommunityMoralRiskSourceDiseaseLosingLaborMadnessWineSpeciesPreservesPoisonDisorderIdlenessQuarrelsBrutesVigorDegradeAversion Author:Francois Fenelon
“Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.".” HumansMayFactsMightCommunityAnimalCreaturesSmartScientistIntelligentBritishSheepSuggestingUnderestimatedBeing Irish Author:Jon Stewart
“Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.” MenWayMayIndividualCommunityFreedomCitiesGroupsOppressionVillageSmall GroupsLarge CitiesSmall Villages Author:Morris Raphael Cohen
“Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayMayMatterLiteratureCommunityViewsProfessorsAcademicWhat Matters Author:Robert B. Parker
“While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.” MayCommunityBehaviorObsessionPlagueObsessiveLoneAntisocialMoxie Author:Robert Genn
“Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.” MenMayUseCommunityLandSubjectsDegreesPropertyEvery ManWelfarePublic Welfare Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.” ThinkingMayCommunityDeserveImprovementEnginesAdmirableReproachMasonicContending Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.” HumansMayMadeSelfProblemGovernmentActionSocialCommunitySelf LoveInstitutionsOperationsOrganizeLegislationSocial Action Author:John Quincy Adams