Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
Interpretation
Community is essential for instilling values such as trust and respect in individuals of all ages.
This quote emphasizes the vital role that community plays in fostering essential values such as trust, respect, and ethical behavior. It suggests that without a strong sense of community, it becomes challenging for the young to learn these values and for the older generation to uphold them, indicating that social cohesion is crucial for moral development across generations.
In practice
During a community gathering to discuss youth programs.
On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.
A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.
Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth. It (the community) cares for that part (of the Earth) but cares for it as a circle - which is to say in a cooperative and egalitarian way, where everybody is cared for, and everybody is respected.
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
Without strong communities, we cannot pull together during times of hardship. Our diversity turns from a source of strength to a source of conflict.
I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
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