Communes Quotes

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  Patricia Arquette

  Real, Hippie, Grew Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Creating, Growth, Movement

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• I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

  George Washington Carver

  Giving Up, Flower, Secret

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Love, Giving Up, Secret

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• To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Intuition, Environmental

  Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. March 17, 2007.

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• No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Women, Matter

  "Future Families". Margaret Mead in "The American People in the Age of Kennedy" edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.

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• Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Artist, San Francisco

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Giving Up, Flower, Love You

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• Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

  Friedrich Engels

  Philosophical, Paris, Looks

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Hal Draper (1971). “Writings on the Paris Commune”

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• Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

  Dario Fo

  Real, Men, Age

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• The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Organization, Paris

  Letter to Philipp Van Patten, www.marxists.org. April 18, 1883.

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• Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something grander than man. Their mere distance and unprofanedness is an infinite encouragement. it is with infinite yearning and aspiration that I seek solitude, more and more resolved and strong; but with a certain weakness that I seek society ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Encouragement, Strong, Distance

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Father, Past, Grandparent

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.425, A&C Black

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• Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Fighting, Men, Space

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• A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Together, Wealth

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• Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Maturity, Love Is

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• I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Python, Special

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• I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

  Kristin Hersh

  Female, Grew Up, Grew

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• We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Learning

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.619, Best Books on

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• I'm afraid to walk in public, because people look at me. But I'm not going to stop. I'm afraid because if I want to commune with my friend Shad (Meier), I have to ask him to cut my chicken for me. But I did it. And I'm afraid to go back and see my teammates and coaches because I know that I'll feel envy. But I'm going to do it anyway. Because fear is just a feeling, and if you can acknowledge that fear, digest that fear and overcome it, the rewards are incredible.

  Steve Gleason

  Cutting, People, Envy

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• The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Order, Live In The Moment, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do not comprehend. Therefore I also say, ask of Nature that you may be one with her and she will whisper her secrets to you to the extent in which you are prepared to listen. Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her.

  Walter Russell

  Wisdom, Nature, Jealous

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• The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice and asked if they could do a feature article on us about how a commune works. They came and asked us questions, took our photos and disappeared. One week later the article appeared and it said: 'This kind of community stinks and if this is the future of Germany then we need Adolf back.'

  Chris Karrer

  Nice, Voice, Community

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• What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.

  Victor Serge

  Dream, War, Party

  Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.133, University of Iowa Press

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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