Quotes About Community

Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Man was formed for society.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.

I've decided that mixing is a key term. It's better than suggestion, which is one-sided. It explains what people rarely talk about, because we define ourselves as isolated, closed bodies who bump up against each other but stay shut. Descartes was wrong. It isn't: I think, there I am. It's: I am because you are. That's Hegel - well, the short version.

Y cuanto más vivo más convencido estoy de que cuando digo yo en realidad estoy diciendo nosotros.

Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.

but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we make it partly real.

Real New York and imaginary New York aren't easily separated. The stuff of a city isn't only material; it's spiritual as well.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Christmas is a time when God showed His love for us, and we're ready to show God's love in the communities where we live and serve. That's the purpose of the church.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

I love New York City.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.