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Quotes About Community

To all the kids who don't belong, for whatever reason. This one's for you.
~ Firoozeh Dumas
There are a thousand ways in which his neighbours can evaporate the essence which is all in all to him, while they at the same time give to his scenery ponderable value which to them is worth far more
~ Fitz Hugh Ludlow
The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. ("The Gift Of God").
~ Fletcher Pratt
We are well,' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.' 'It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.
~ Flora Nwapa
One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.
~ Flora Thompson
People were poorer and had not the comforts, amusements, or knowledge we have today; but they were happier.
~ Flora Thompson
You don't want to be poor and look poor, too,' they would say; and 'We've got our pride. Yes, we've got our pride.
~ Flora Thompson
Every man is a golden link in the chain of my good
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
that "one with God is a majority.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
~ Florence Welch
Be the first to give help, and the last to ask for it.
~ Foodi S. M.
An idealist is someone who helps other people to be prosperous
~ Ford Henry Ford
Kad nai?eš na nešto što je dobro", rekla je baka Malom Drvetu, "prvo što trebaš napraviti je potražiti nekoga s kim to možeš podijeliti; na taj se na?in dobro širi do najudaljenijih kutaka svijeta. Što je dobro." I imala je pravo.
~ Forrest Carter
Granma said I had done right, for when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go. Which is right. I
~ Forrest Carter
Unitarian Universalists are neither a chosen people nor a people whose choices are made for them by theological authorities - ancient or otherwise. We are a people who choose.
~ Forrest Church
Come convivere senza conoscersi? E come conoscersi senza comprendere il cuore segreto degli altri?
~ Fosco Maraini
Hence it follows that man in an isolated state cannot subsist, whilst in the social state his most imperious wants give place to desires of a higher order, and continue to do so in an ascending career of progress and improvement to which it is impossible to set limits.
~ Frederic Bastiat
It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees, amongst the rest of the community, personal independence by slavery, liberty by oppression, and property by plunder. It
~ Frederic Bastiat
The separation of employments, the division of labor, which results from the faculty of exchanging, causes each man, instead of struggling on his own account to overcome all the obstacles that surround him, to combat only one of them; he overcomes that one not for himself but for his fellow men, who in turn render him the same service.
~ Frederic Bastiat
One thing is overlooked, which is this: That the kind of dependence that results from exchange, from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent on the foreigner without the foreigner being dependent on us. Now, this is the very essence of society. To break up natural relations is not to place ourselves in a state of independence, but in a state of isolation.
~ Frederic Bastiat
It is all in vain; you cannot give money to some members of the community but by taking it from others. If you desire to ruin the tax-payer, you may do so. But at least do not banter him by saying: "In order to compensate your losses, I take from you again as much as I have taken from you already.
~ Frederic Bastiat
legislators have almost always been ignorant of the object of society, which is to unite families by a common interest.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Tôi không bi?t mình là ai, nh?ng tôi bi?t ?i?u mình không mu?n là: m?t ng??i cô ??c. M?t ng??i cô ??c thì ch?ng là ng??i nào c?.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Ainsi va la grande chaîne du mépris publicitaire : le réalisateur méprise l'agence, l'agence méprise l'annonceur, l'annonceur méprise le public, le public méprise son voisin.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder