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I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time. — Georges Brassens

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. — Wendell Berry

Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. — Gloria Steinem

But joy is individual, and can only be experienced alone. Hell is communal, but Heaven is personal. — Simon Kurt Unsworth

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event. — Julia Child

Their isolation was communal," he wrote. "They could escape neither their loneliness nor each other. — Wayne Curtis

Genius is individual, scenius is communal. — Brian Eno

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences. — David Rockwell

Development is the solution to all problems. All other types of caste, communal and dynasty politics will not do good. — Narendra Modi

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles. — Gloria Steinem

The more settled and ordered one's life - and in particular one's communal life - the easier it becomes for one's imagination to fail. — Charles Krauthammer

The conscience is a communal organ - a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others. — Ken Wilson

Sin is also a necessary piece of our mental furniture because sin is communal, while error is individual. — David Brooks

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice. — Earl Blaik

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity. — Brian Eno

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have. — Hayley Atwell

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. — Robertson Davies

Flight from the communal spirit is death! — Novalis

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death. — Georges Bataille

It was unthinkable to sell land, was to sell communal privileges or commute labor services and bonds of serfdom for a money rent. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality. — Khaleda Zia

Our food is communal in the sense that a lot of it is prepared with sharing in mind. — Duval Timothy

returned to sow the valley. In the communal dining hall, they sing joyfully. They dance through the night, into the light of dawn. — Ari Shavit

I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now. — Tom Ford

The thing with me is, I'm both untidy and I hate mess. But I'm not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc. — Alison Moyet

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook. — Noah Baumbach

The microwave is as antisocial as the cook fire is communal. — Michael Pollan

Our individual as well as communal lives are so deeply molded by our worries about tomorrow that today hardly can be experienced. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

... religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes. — Kathleen Norris

For the most part, if you have an isolated place, it's sort of nice to have a communal vibe. — Grace Phipps

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous. — Georges Canguilhem

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. — Robert Brustein

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. — Mary Everest Boole

He had long accepted that everyone had his own world inside, each as real as the communal world shared by all but impossible for others to access. — Joe Hill

Stories are a communal currency of humanity. — Tahir Shah

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. — Theodore Bikel

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion. — Marcus J. Borg

Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support. — Gloria Steinem

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation. — Ted Alexandro

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck. — Joseph Brodsky

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing. — Julian Casablancas

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes

The desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. — Michael Ondaatje

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. — Curt Sachs

Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed — Frank Herbert

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart. — Max Stirner

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends. — Barack Obama

Truth is communal. — Svetlana Alexievich

... Can there be a positive postulate of a communal estate ... ? It is the perpetual whole that is always merely fractional and antithetic to it-self. — Dew Platt

We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities. — Arthur Potts Dawson

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. — Elizabeth Bowen

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life. — Thomas Friedman

There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking. — Gerald Vizenor

When the communal silences the individual, every essence within the individual is silenced. — Dew Platt

Success and leadership need to be redefined in communal categories. — Preben Vang

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility. — Jeff Koons

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions. — Narendra Modi

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. — Geraldine Brooks

Work is easy when it's full of meaning and shared with others. — Jared Brock

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted. — David McNally

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

Eating was an essential, sensual and communal activity requiring nothing more than taste buds and an open mind. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

Communal well-being is central to human life. — Cat Stevens

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile. — Dan Wells

Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete — Pope John Paul II

The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state. — Okakura Kakuzo

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory. — Justin Kaplan

Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share. — Mark Canton

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room. — Judith Thurman

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort. — Steve Carell

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. — Walter Brueggemann

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense. — R.D. Laing

[F]or any group determined to maintain a set of communal standards some mechanism of enforcement must exist. — Clay Shirky

He had already come to see human lives as one single communal life and it was perhaps this perception that gave him hope. — Andrei Makine