If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.
I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.
I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.
Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity. . . . Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.
The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous, whatever your personal interests might be, there will always be someone somewhere to provide validation and encouragement.
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.
There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.
I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying "Destiny. " For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village. . . a simultaneous happening