Quotes About Community

and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others

He was only to look that he used them before they spoiled, else he took more than his share, and robbed others.

el disfrute de bienes en ese estado es muy inestable, en zozobra. Ello le hace desear el abandono de una condición que, aunque libre, llena está de temores y continuados peligros; y no sin razón busca y se une en sociedad con otros ya reunidos, o afanosos de hacerlo para esa mutua preservación de sus vidas, libertades y haciendas, a que doy el nombre general de propiedad.

El fin, pues, mayor y principal de los hombres que se unen en comunidades políticas y se ponen bajo el gobierno de ellas, es la preservación de su propiedad;

Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good.

Por "república" he entendido constantemente no una democracia ni cualquier otra forma de gobierno, sino cualquier comunidad independiente

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniencies of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

As long as he [William of Orange] lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the streets.

police explain that the job of protecting people is their own,

The fear, not the disease, threatened to break the society apart.

Take a bite out of crime

Le temps mauvais passe quand on mange et s'amuse—Bad times pass when one eats and is merry. On ne fait pas comme on veut, mais comme on peut—One doesn't do what one wants, but what one can. La moitié du monde se moque de l'autre moitié—Half the world laughs at the other half.

love reaches out to communicate, to share, to widen the realm of its own communion.

We're all so curiously alone, but it's important to keep making signals through the glass

People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.

The Cherokee Nation… is a distinct community, occupying its own territory… which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Biblical stewardship produces a spiritual fragrance in the people who live it.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

Ordinary people with commitments can make an extraordinary impact in their world

You're never alone with a Strand.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe

Of the maxims of orthodox finance, none, surely, is more antisocial than the fetish of liquidity…. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.