community size Quotes

The nation-state has become too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems.

The strength of a people lies in their numbers.

Nashville is a pretty small place.

We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence.

The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity.

The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subculture' are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

The trouble is that America's become a utopia accessible only to some people. Others get trampled on. Perhaps it's a problem of size. Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist, once gave the ideal number of a given community as 148. That seems about right to me. There's something idealistic about that - in a group of 148 people you can get to know everybody.

Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.

The amount of people online who game is huge. It's a community that's not very visible but is in full force.

I think that we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups. It's very scary when we're all - as wonderful as it is - connected.

There are no small churches, just small people.

The village where my father lives is, like, 300 people.

When you're dealing with a small community, every person counts.

I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.

The scale is the most important part of Roblox. We'll be the biggest VR community in the world.