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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Humorous, Believe, Rocks

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.187, Grove Press

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• When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Meditation, Form

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• I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Fire, Rome

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Prayer, Children, Father

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• Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don't. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It's mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, People, Use

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• In 1980, Osho left India for America. I, like many other sannyasins, moved to Oregon where work had begun on the 'new commune'. Osho named it Rajneeshpuram.

  Swami Anand Milarepa

  Oregon, America, India

  Source: www.sannyas.wiki

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• Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

  Maimonides

  Heart, Bed, Stills

  "The Guide for the Perplexed".

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• I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Children, Nice

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• Dammit, Vik. How can you not know what’s wrong with this thing? Can’t you commune with it or something? (Devyn) My name is not ‘Dammit, Vik’ and I find it ironic that you think I can commune with all metal beings when you can barely communicate your point of view to your own parents. And they birthed you. I did not give birth to this ship. Last time I checked, I was male and that would be impossible on a multitude of levels. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Views, Names

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• And speaking of scary things, I need to leave. My guides are fading even as we speak. (Talon) I hate when you commune with the dead in front of me. (Kyrian) Are you the asshole who sent the 'I See Dead People' T-shirt to me? (Talon) That would be Wulf. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, People, Scary

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