Quotes About Community

Los hermanos sean unidos porque esa es la ley primera; tengan unión verdadera en cualquier tiempo que sea, porque si entre ellos pelean los devoran los de afuera.

Si observamos cualquier sociedad humana, el valor de sus componentes resulta siempre relativo al conjunto: el hombre es un valor social.

Europe is really a swarm: many bees on a single course.

Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

Kapag may mga uban na po akong tulad ng sa inyo at ginugunita ang nakaraan at makita kong gumawa ako alang-alang sa sarili lamang, hindi ginhawa ang magagawa't nararapat gawin ukol sa bayang nagbigay sa akin ng lahat, ukol sa mga mamamayang tumutulong sa aking mabuhay, kapag nagkagayon po, magiging tinik sa akin ang bawat uban, at sa halip na ikaliwalhati ko'y dapat kong ikahiya.

My greatest desire is my country's happiness, a happiness I would like to be owed to the mother country and the efforts of my fellow citizens, united with one another with eternal ties of common vigilance and common interests.

Twenty years is more than enough to know a town, and no one can convince me otherwise. San Diego had six thousand souls, and I knew all the townspeople as if I myself had given birth to them and I myself had nursed them. I knew on which foot this one limped, and which shoe was too tight for that one, who was courting which young woman.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

El miedo al cambio social fue desde el principio la base de la solidaridad de «Occidente».

Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself.

Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no consequence; but when the whole community is shaken, and the safety of the public endangered, the appearance of a philosophical or an affected indolence must arise either from stupidity or perfidiousness.

I shall therefore retire into the Town, if I may make use of that Phrase, and get into the Crowd again as fast as I can, in order to be alone. I can there raise what Speculations I please upon others without being observed my self, and at the same time enjoy all the Advantages of Company with all the Privileges of Solitude.

It takes many steppingstones, you know, for a man to rise. None can do it unaided.

I am Squanto. I am known to all those who gather here: English, Pokanoket, Nemasket, even a few of my own surviving Patuxets. I speak to you as a pniese , a man of honor. I will never leave this land. I give thanks for all of our people to the Creator of All Things.

It is not hard work, because all work together... what one hand finds hard to lift is lighter than a feather when many lift together.

The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realisation then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming and about how ideas of forming stem from history.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.