Quotes About Community

The true mark of a king is not his power or his wealth, but his compassion for his people.

There is no merit in an empire as such. Extension in space does not necessarily mean spiritual advancement. The small community is easier to govern, and, it may well be, more pleasant to live in. If its opportunities are limited its perils are also circumscribed.

Yet the more I think about it the more I realise that we women set impossible standards for ourselves. That we make life intolerable for one another. I cannot live up to your standards, senior wife. So I have to set my own.

I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!

As parents, we have a chance when our children are young to turn them into good citizens rather than wait for the government to raise them for us.

I've often told people who ask if there is a God: "Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things that they do, and you'll become a believer!

We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

Some places have religion. Here we have safety drills.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.

It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.

Ten Å›wiat jest wspólny, jest spóÅ'kÄ… akcyjnÄ… wszystkich ludzi pod ka?dÄ… szerokoÅ›ciÄ… geograficznÄ…. My kanibale, musimy jakoÅ› dopomaga? tym chrzeÅ›cijanom. - Ismael, Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Pela arte foi criado esse grande Leviatã denominado Comunidade ou Estado - (em latim, Civitas) que não é mais que um homem artificial". THOMAS HOBBES. SENTENÇA DE ABERTURA DO "LEVIATÔ.

The islanders, while employed in erecting this tenement, reminded me of a colony of beavers at work. To be sure, they were hardly as silent and demure as those wonderful creatures, nor were they by any means as diligent. To tell the truth they were somewhat inclined to be lazy, but a perfect tumult of hilarity prevailed; and they worked together so unitedly, and seemed actuated by such an instinct of friendliness, that it was truly beautiful to behold. Not

gemideki herkes son derece iyi insanlard?. K?sa yaÅŸayan, neÅŸeli ölen türden.

at intervals singing what seemed a dismal stave of psalmody, to cheer the hands at the windlass, who roared forth some sort of a chorus about the girls in Booble Alley, with hearty good will.

Say you strike a Forty-barrel-bull—poor devil! all his comrades quit him. But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.

The toiling masses,' and all that. This country has no toiling masses, we have Dan at the diner and Verne in the mine and Jerry in the steel mill and Burdette at the filling station and so on. They don't toil, for Christ's sake, they do a day's work and then they go home and have a beer. You can't get them into a mass for anything. If there's a good ball game on TV they won't come out to see the president ride by.