Top 289 Communal Quotes & Sayings

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.

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

Keralites don't think on communal lines.

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

Communal well-being is central to human life.

I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

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.

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

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

There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.

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

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

The radio - this old piece of technology that's still crackingly current - gives you this communal experience in real time.

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

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

Gujarat, which Modi has made the laboratory of Hindutva, is the leading edge of the onslaught of communal fascism in this country.

Around 2013-14, I started ranting on Twitter about the communal dysfunction that society was getting into. And I would have fights with trolls.

I can't think of a community that couldn't benefit from communal thinking.

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

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

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells.

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.

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.

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.

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

When the BSP was in power, there were no communal riots.

Appeal for votes should not be made on basis of caste, creed, or communal. In a healthy democracy, this is not expected from any political leader.

The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me.

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

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

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely.

As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

Both the BJP and the SP are trying to create communal tension but people have become aware.

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

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

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

Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.

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.

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.

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are not communist governments. The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain and the thousands of worker-owned cooperatives in the United States, are viable alternatives to capitalism.

There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was approved which has to do with the role and the place and the function of the institution of traditional leadership. Now that legislation, not the Communal Land Rights Bill, provides for the setting up of particular committees that would work together with the elected municipalities.

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

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

We can never forget the Gujarat communal riots.

If you surrender to the communal vision, sometimes, certainly in our case, you become more than the sum of your parts.

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

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

RSS is an organization that is trained in spreading lies and creating communal clashes.

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.

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.

We are fighting the communal BJP on the one hand and the corrupt Congress on the other.

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