Quotes About Community

When all's said and done, it's people, not things, that bring the most joy.

The People expected too much of the little English boy from Philly. Yet Nick had come back to the very folk who had failed to believe in him.

Where, in Heaven's name, could anyone even be alone in Calcutta? What hanky-panky business, in my mother's words, could go on? Everyone knew the rules and the rules stated caste and community narrowed the range of intimate contact.

Our criminal class grew out of good religious native soil.

Some generous souls forbear their own, and seek another's gain; Most men, neglecting not their own, their neighbour's cause maintain; Those are mere demons who would build their wealth on other's loss, But what are those who profitless their neighbour's interest cross?

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

But what keeps throwing us back is so much backbiting and gossiping and lying going on; even among the counterculture everybody either wants to be worshipped or be king of the hill. I'm seriously beginning to question whether I've met an honest person in my life.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.

All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

My message to everyone who's been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. We need you. We want you and there's a place for you in our campaign.

It's not just the automobile industry is coming back, folks. Manufacturing is coming back. The middle class is coming back. America is coming back -- worker by worker, home by home, community by community, this country is coming back.

No matter what, I'm still in this for the same reason, we have to restore the soul of this country, bring back the middle class and make sure we bring people together.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald Reagan, self-aggrandizement has been the full-throated cry of this society: 'I've got mine, so why don't you get yours' and 'What's in it for me?'

We can and we must build a more perfect union. Because the American people have seen the alternative.

DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter.

We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.

Thousands, tens of thousands, and millions right now are mobilizing to stoke those fires from below, to develop a shared faith that injustice can be opposed and justice aspired to, that human solidarity and connectedness can become a living force, that a spirit of courage can be tempered with vast feelings of love and generosity, and that a full and passionate embrace of the lives we're given can be combined with an eagerness to move forward toward a worldwide beloved community.