Pico Iyer Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

  Pico Iyer

  Loyalty, Distance, Mean

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.37, Vintage

• Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

  Pico Iyer

  Angel, Thinking, Cities

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.84, Vintage

• To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.

  Pico Iyer

  Moving, Home, Community

  Source: scottlondon.com

• I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

  Pico Iyer

  People, Community, Likes

  Source: scottlondon.com

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