Quotes About Community

for this world a family mansion, and for the

know one or two families, at least, in this town, who, for nearly a generation, have been wishing to sell their houses in the outskirts and move into the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free.

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.

Per la maggior parte, noi siamo più soli quando usciamo tra gli uomini che quando restiamo in camera nostra. Un uomo che pensi o lavori è sempre solo – lasciatelo stare dove vuole. La solitudine non è misurata dalle miglia di distanza che si frappongono fra un uomo e il suo prossimo

If a man has faith, he will co-operate with equal faith everywhere; if he has not faith, he will continue to live like the rest of the world, whatever company he is joined to.

Tenía tres sillas en mi casa; una para la soledad, dos para la amistad, tres para la compañía

Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.

Seit vielen Jahren haben sich nunmehr die Menschen in den Wald begeben, um Brenn- und Baustoffe zu beschaffen. Der Neuengländer und der Neuholländer, der Pariser und der Kelte, der Bauer und Robin Hood, Goody Blake und Harry Gill, in den meisten Teilen der Welt der Fürst und der Landmann, der Gelehrte und der Wilde, alle brauchen gleichermaßen ein paar Zweiglein aus dem Wald, um sich zu wärmen und ihr Essen zu kochen. Auch ich kam nicht ohne aus.

priznam, da sem osupel ob mo?i vzdržljivosti - da sploh ne omenjam moralne neob?utljivosti - svojih sosedov, ki se tedne, mesece, da celo leta, za ves dan zapirajo v svoje trgovine in pisarne. Ne vem, iz kakšne snovi so, da lahko ob treh popoldan sedijo tamkaj, kakor da bi bila ura tri zjutraj.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

It is difficult to being without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise.

I had gone down to the woods for other purposes. But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of universities, with leisure — if they are, indeed, so well off — to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives.

I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.

for, by whatever means you get into the polite circle, when you are once there, it is sufficient merit for you that you are there.

Who subsidizes the consumers will depend upon the incidence of taxation. But men in their role of taxpayers will be subsidizing themselves in their role of consumers. It becomes a little difficult to trace in this maze precisely who is subsidizing whom. What is forgotten is that subsidies are paid for by someone, and that no method has been discovered by which the community gets something for nothing.

But men in their role of taxpayers will be subsidizing themselves in their role of consumers. It becomes a little difficult to trace in this maze precisely who is subsidizing whom. What is forgotten is that subsidies are paid for by someone, and that no method has been discovered by which the community gets something for nothing.

la economía es la ciencia que calcula los resultados de determinada política económica, simplemente planeada o puesta en práctica, no sólo a corto plazo y en relación con algún grupo de intereses especiales, sino a la larga y en relación con el interés general de toda la colectividad».

es forzoso que examinemos no sólo los resultados inmediatos que su adopción producirá, sino también los resultados a largo plazo; no sólo las consecuencias primarias, sino también las secuelas secundarias, y no sólo sus efectos sobre un sector determinado de intereses, sino sobre toda la colectividad.

Naturalmente, cabe incidir en el error contrario. Al ponderar un cierto programa económico no debemos atenernos exclusivamente a sus resultados remotos sobre toda la comunidad. Es éste un error que a menudo cometieron los economistas clásicos, lo cual engendró una cierta insensibilidad frente a la desgracia de aquellos sectores que resultaban inmediatamente perjudicados por unas directrices o sistemas que a largo plazo beneficiarían a la colectividad.

el sofisma básico de la «nueva» Economía, consiste en concentrar la atención sobre los efectos inmediatos de cierto plan en relación con sectores concretos e ignorar o minimizar sus remotas repercusiones sobre toda la comunidad.

Los economistas clásicos, al refutar los errores de su tiempo, mostraron que la política del ahorro, orientada en interés del individuo, sirve al propio tiempo el de la comunidad. Indicaban que el ahorrador consciente, al preocuparse de su propio futuro, no perjudicaba, sino que ayudaba a la sociedad.

The proposal for government loans to private individuals or projects, in brief, sees B and forgets A. It sees the people into whose hands the capital is put; it forgets those who would otherwise have had it. It sees the project to which capital is granted; it forgets the projects from which capital is thereby withheld. It sees the immediate benefit to one group; it overlooks the losses to other groups, and the net loss to the community as a whole.