Quotes About Community

Leaving the Great House, my presence became known to the colored people, some of whom were children of those I had known when a boy. They all seemed delighted to see me, and were pleased when I called over the names of many of the old servants

Some sins, some evils in communities, could be best removed by the virtuous efforts of individuals composing these communities, but it was not so with slavery. That is such a monstrous system, such a giant crime, that it begets a character favorable to its own existence, vanquishing the moral perception, and blinding the moral vision of all who come in contact with it; and a nation has not the moral energy necessary to its removal.

Col. Lloyd's plantation resembles what the baronial domains were during the middle ages in Europe. Grim, cold, and unapproachable by all genial influences from communities without, there it stands; full three hundred years behind the age

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

GVN and its local officials," even if they were afraid to show

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

Living tones are we, we sound together in thy harmony.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people—"base.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.

Do I advise you to love thy neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from thy neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for thy neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

The creator seeks companions, not corpses- and not herds or believers either. The creator seeks fellow-creators - those who grave new values on new law-tablets.

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

Help yourself, then everyone will help you. Principle of brotherly love.

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

You lonely of today, you withdrawing ones, one day you shall be a people: from you that have chosen yourselves a chosen people shall grow and from them the overman.

Every company is bad company except that of one's equals.

The formation of a herd is a significant victory and advance in the struggle against depression.

Religions belong to the rabble; after coming into contact with religious people I always feel that I must wash my hands.

The law, or the thoroughly realistic formalization of certain conditions for the self-preservation of a community, forbids certain actions directed against the community. However, it does not forbid the disposition that produces these actions, for it needs these action for other ends.