Quotes About Community

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

Moreover, the excessive individualism which then prevailed was inconsistent with much public spirit. What little wealth you had seems almost wholly to have been lavished in private luxury. Nowadays, on the contrary, there is no destination of the surplus wealth so popular as the adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree.

Wretched men, I was moved to cry, who, because they will not learn to be helpers of one another, are doomed to be beggars of one another from the least to the greatest!

The private umbrella is father's favorite figure to illustrate the old way when everybody lived for himself and his family. There is a nineteenth century painting at the Art Gallery representing a crowd of people in the rain, each one holding his umbrella over himself and his wife, and giving his neighbors the drippings, which he claims must have been meant by the artist as a satire on his times.

Who is capable of self-support?" he demanded. "There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family cooperation, each individual may possibly support himself, though even then for a part of his life only; but from the moment that men begin to live together, and constitute even the rudest sort of society, self-support becomes

El paraguas individual es la imágen favorita de mi padre cuando quiere caracterizar el tiempo en que cada uno vivía sólo para sí y para su familia. Hay un cuadro del siglo XIX que representa una multitud bajo la lluvia, donde cada cual mantiene su paraguas por encima de su cabeza y la de su esposa, y obsequia a su vecino con las gotas que chorrean de aquél. Dice mi padre que ese cuadro debió ser para el artista una especie de sátira de aquellos tiempos.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

No path between the stranger's home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.

But dream not of freedom for the whole while you enslave the parts; the heart must be the centre of the system, the blood must circulate freely everywhere; and in vast communities you behold but a bloated and feeble giant, whose brain is imbecile, whose limbs are dead, and who pays in disease and weakness the penalty of transcending the natural proportions of health and vigour.

Have you ever remarked, that people who live the most by themselves reflect the most upon others; and that he who lives surrounded by the million never thinks of any but the one individual — himself?

Thus sometimes we watch individuals acting for their own ends with little thought of their effect on society at large.

There are people so intent on the separate life of individuals that they cannot grasp a notion of the action of the community as a whole – such an observer, incapable of a wide view of society, is aptly described in the saying that he "cannot see the forest for the trees… Thus sometimes we watch individuals acting for their own ends with little thought of their effect on society at large.

So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Look up and not down; look out and not in; look forward and not back, and lend a hand.

Together — one of the most inspiring words in the English language. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Ah, the Irish. We're a hopeless lot.

Keep America Beautiful.

Friends don't let friends drive drunk.